Толковый словарь английского языка - hog
Hog
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I. noun (plural ~s; also ~) Etymology: Middle English ~ge, from Old English ~g Date: 14th century a domestic swine especially when weighing more than 120 pounds (54 kilograms), a young unshorn sheep, 3. a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person, one that uses something to excess , II. verb (~ged; ~ging) Date: 1769 transitive verb to cut (a horse's mane) short ; roach , to cause to arch, to take in excess of one's due , to tear up or shred (as waste wood) into bits by machine, intransitive verb to become curved upward in the middle
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n. & v. --n. 1 a a domesticated pig, esp. a castrated male reared for slaughter. b any of several other pigs of the family Suidae, e.g. a wart-hog. 2 colloq. a greedy person. 3 (also hogg) Brit. dial. a young sheep before the first shearing. --v. (hogged, hogging) 1 tr. colloq. take greedily; hoard selfishly. 2 tr. & intr. raise (the back), or rise in an arch in the centre. Phrases and idioms go the whole hog colloq. do something completely or thoroughly. hog-tie US 1 secure by fastening the hands and feet or all four feet together. 2 restrain, impede. Derivatives hogger n. hoggery n. hoggish adj. hoggishly adv. hoggishness n. hoglike adj. Etymology: OE hogg, hocg, perh. of Celt. orig. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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