hog
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- noun
- /hɔg/
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cerdo
- At the county fair, the hog won first prize for its size and health.
- hog farm
- hog feed
- raise hogs
So we we had our eyes on some hogs headed over that way.
- So we we had our eyes on some hogs headed over that way.
- Was attempting to weigh a hog before slaughter in it.
- I don't know why, but this feral hog thing has been like a huge thing with our audience.
- You both see each others whole hog roast.
- We had a horse and cows and wild hogs and stuff.
- Every guy they they know, they hunt hogs.
- But she sounds like a sweet young lady and oh, Iowa and pigtails and hog wrangling and all that jazz.
- I went to some restaurants in the countryside and they served a bunch of game and I had wild hog ribs, these giant ribs.
- And my grandfather and the farmer that owned the land was at the club tending to the hog on the cooker.
- They ended up culling molar hogs from their farms and the rest of the world's commercial farms have hogs.
Examples
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Maine also has a ban on hog operations with 500 or more animals.
Academic text (2000) -
William is in the barn loft, shoveling corn down to feed the hogs, while he glimpses something coming.
Fiction book (1995) -
We got that hog, stock to feed, and a root cellar to fill.
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They've got a hog farm south of here.
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The increase in the sale of hogs was even more substantial.
Academic text (2000) -
Five years ago, the inventory of hogs in the United States was about 57.5 million.
Academic text (2000) -
The truck was loaded with fat hogs, heading for the packing plant at Jefferson.
Fiction book (1992) -
Everywhere you look, there seem to be hog farms, their unpainted metal roofs shimmering in the sun.
Academic text (1997) -
The farmer sells fresh meat from the hog he raised on his farm.
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They enjoyed a delicious barbecue featuring tender ribs from a prized hog.
Synonyms
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A farm animal with a thick body, short legs, and a long nose raised for meat
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A farm animal like a pig that is raised for meat
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A pig raised to be sold for meat
A farm pig that makes short low noises
Idioms
Compounds
- US
A wild animal like a pig that is active at night and lives in North and South America
A low evergreen shrub with small white flowers and red berries whose leaves turn red in autumn
- US
A large sea fish that lives in the western Atlantic and whose male has a head like a pig's snout
- Specialized
A large skunk with a bare, pig-like snout and a white back and tail from southwestern North America
A wild pig with a thin body, long legs, and a ridged back found in the southeastern United States
A wild pig with a raised ridge along its back that lives in the southern United States
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Etymology
The word hog comes from an old English word hogg meaning 'young pig'. Farmers later used it for the large pigs kept for meat, so a hog today is a farm pig raised for food.