hog

1. 1.

   take greedily; take more than one's share

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Other forms of hog

plural

hogs·

past tense or participle

hogged

present participle

hogging

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hog

What does hog mean?

hog means "a person regarded as greedy and pig-like". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hog?

hog has 1 syllable: hog. In IPA it is /ˈhɑɡ/.

What is another word for hog?

Close synonyms include pig, hogget, hogg, pig, grunter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hog a common word?

hog is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hog?

3 words rhyme with hog. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.