hog
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- noun
- /hɔg/
- Archaic
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- During the visit to the farm, the children especially loved seeing the baby hogs in the pen.
Examples
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Part of the overall strategy for agricultural diversification and enhanced profitability involved livestock, including cattle, sheep, hogs, and poultry.
Academic text (2007) -
Today the range of animals encompasses cattle, sheep, hogs, etc.
Academic text (1994) -
Mary hayed the cattle and the sheep and had Martha water and haul the hog trough full.
Fiction book (1995) -
The farmer raised a flock of sheep, and among them were several young hogs waiting to be sheared.
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In spring, the pasture was full of playful hogs frolicking with the lambs.
Synonyms
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1.0
A farm animal with thick wool raised for meat, milk or wool
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1.0
A young sheep less than one year old
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A young sheep less than one year old that farmers have not yet sheared
A young sheep that no longer drinks milk and has not had its first wool cut
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word hog comes from the old English hogg, which meant 'young pig', and in some regions people used the same word for a young sheep before its first shearing. That's why in those places a hog can mean a young sheep.