hog | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: grunter, pig, squealer, Sus scrofa |
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(noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hogg, hogget |
(noun) a person regarded as greedy and pig-like | Synonyms: pig |
(verb) take greedily; take more than one's share | - |
hogan | (noun) a Navajo lodge covered with earth; traditionally built with the entrance facing east | - |
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hogback | (noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: horseback |
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hogchoker | (noun) useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama | Synonyms: Trinectes maculatus |
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hogfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: Orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish |
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(noun) large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout | Synonyms: hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus |
hogg | (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hog, hogget |
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hogged | (adjective) (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end | Synonyms: broken-backed |
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hogget | (noun) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared | Synonyms: hog, hogg |
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hoggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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hoggishness | (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: greediness, piggishness |
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hogshead | (noun) a large cask especially one holding 63 gals | - |
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(noun) a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages | - |
hogwash | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, rot |
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hogweed | (noun) tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers | Synonyms: cow parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium |
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