WORD: HOG [hog]
PART OF SPEECH: Noun
PRONUNCIATION: /hɒɡ/, /hɑɡ/, /hɔɡ/
[Hawg; Hog]
[Hawg; Hog]
SYLLABLES: (1) hog
MEANING:
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- a male pig that has had its sex organs removed and that is raised for meat.
- A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
SENTENCE EXAMPLES:
- Don't be such a hog! Other people have to eat too!
- Don't be such a hog! Other people have to eat too!
- The new software is a real memory hog.
- if I had known that my guests were going to be such hogs, I would have prepared twice as much food.
ORIGIN: Middle English hogge, from Old English hogg.
FIRST KNOWN USE: before 12th century.
SYNONYMS: cormorant, gorger, gormandizer, gourmand, glutton, overeater, pig, stuffer, swiller boar, cob, roller, oinker, piggy, piglet, porker, razorback, shoat, sow, swine, warthog, epicure, greedy eater, hefty eater.
ANTONYMS: dieter, nibbler, picker.
REFERENCES:
Oxford Learners Dictionaries.
Oxford Learners Dictionaries.
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