HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
 

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2. Also said of *people* who use more than their fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one file system, they typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important new project to complete.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
 

Hog \Hog\, v. i. (Naut.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Hog \Hog\ (h[o^]g), n. [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor. houc'h, hoc'h. Cf. Haggis, Hogget, and Hoggerel.]

1. (Zool.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suid[ae]; esp., the domesticated varieties of Sus scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow. [1913 Webster]

Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern Europe, are thought to have been derived from Sus Indicus. [1913 Webster]

2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]

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3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]

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4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. --Totten. [1913 Webster]

5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made. [1913 Webster]

Bush hog, Ground hog, etc.. See under Bush, Ground, etc.

Hog caterpillar (Zool.), the larva of the green grapevine sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See Hawk moth.

Hog cholera, an epidemic contagious fever of swine, attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. --Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser.)

Hog deer (Zool.), the axis deer.

Hog gum (Bot.), West Indian tree (Symphonia globulifera), yielding an aromatic gum.

Hog of wool, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep of the second year.

Hog peanut (Bot.), a kind of earth pea.

Hog plum (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus Spondias (Spondias lutea), with fruit somewhat resembling plums, but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies.

Hog's bean (Bot.), the plant henbane.

Hog's bread.(Bot.) See Sow bread.

Hog's fennel. (Bot.) See under Fennel.

Mexican hog (Zool.), the peccary.

Water hog. (Zool.) See Capybara. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Hog \Hog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Hogging.]

1. To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. --Smart. [1913 Webster]

2. (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

81 Moby Thesaurus words for "hog": adopt, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barrow, belly-god, boar, careerist, colonize, conquer, cormorant, corner, egotist, engross, enslave, forestall, fortune hunter, gilt, glutton, gorger, gormand, gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, greedy eater, greedygut, greedyguts, guttler, husky eater, indent, individualist, jump a claim, lone wolf, loner, make free with, make use of, monopolist, monopolize, narcissist, occupy, overrun, pig, piggy, piglet, pigling, porker, preempt, preoccupy, prepossess, razorback, requisition, road hog, self-advancer, self-pleaser, self-seeker, self-server, shoat, sit on, slattern, sloven, slut, sow, squat on, subjugate, suckling pig, swine, take all of, take it all, take over, take possession of, take up, temporizer, tie up, timepleaser, timeserver, trencherman, trencherwoman, tufthunter, tusker, usurp, wild boar

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

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Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Hog \Hog\, v. i. (Naut.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Hog \Hog\, n. [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor. houc'h, hoc'h. Cf. Haggis, Hogget, and Hoggerel.]

1. (Zo["o]l.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suid[ae]; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern Europe, are thought to have been derived from Sus Indicus.

2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]

3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]

4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. --Totten.

5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.

Bush hog, Ground hog, etc.. See under Bush, Ground, etc.

Hog caterpillar (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the green grapevine sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See Hawk moth.

Hog cholera, an epidemic contagious fever of swine, attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. --Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser.)

Hog deer (Zo["o]l.), the axis deer.

Hog gum (Bot.), West Indian tree (Symphonia globulifera), yielding an aromatic gum.

Hog of wool, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep of the second year.

Hog peanut (Bot.), a kind of earth pea.

Hog plum (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus Spondias (S. lutea), with fruit somewhat resembling plums, but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies.

Hog's bean (Bot.), the plant henbane.

Hog's bread.(Bot.) See Sow bread.

Hog's fennel. (Bot.) See under Fennel.

Mexican hog (Zo["o]l.), the peccary.

Water hog. (Zo["o]l.) See Capybara.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Hog \Hog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Hogging.]

1. To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. --Smart.

2. (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)