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"hog" in British English

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hognoun [C]

uk   /hɒɡ/  us   /hɑːɡ/

hog noun [C] (ANIMAL)

› US a ​pig, ​especially one that is ​allowed to ​grow ​large so that it can be ​eaten› UK a ​male ​pig with ​its ​sexual ​organs ​removed, ​kept for ​its ​meat
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boar
sow

hog noun [C] (PERSON)

› informal disapproving someone who ​takes much more than a ​fair ​share of something, ​especially by ​eating too much: You've ​eaten it all? You hog!
Idioms
go hog wild

hogverb [T]

uk   /hɒɡ/  us   /hɑːɡ/ (-gg-) informal
› to take or use more than ​your ​share of something: He's always hogging the ​bathroom (= ​spending too much ​time in the ​bathroom, so that no one ​else can use it).
Idioms
hog the road
(Definition of hog from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

"hog" in American English

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hognoun [C]

 us   /hɑɡ, hɔɡ/

hog noun [C] (ANIMAL)

› a ​pig, esp. one ​allowed to ​grow ​large so that it can be used as ​food

hog noun [C] (PERSON)

› infml disapproving a ​person who ​takes more than ​necessary of something, esp. ​food: Don’t be a hog – take only as much as you can ​eat.

hogverb [T]

 us   /hɑɡ, hɔɡ/ (-gg-) infml disapproving

hog verb [T] (TAKE TOO MUCH)

› to take or use more than ​necessary of something: He’s always hogging the ​newspaper (= using it so that no one ​else can ​read it).
(Definition of hog from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Translations of “hog”
in Spanish cerdo, puerco, marrano…
in Vietnamese lợn đực thiến…
in Malaysian babi…
in Thai หมูตอน…
in French porc…
in German das Schwein…
in Chinese (Simplified) 动物, （尤指供食用的）猪, （供食用的）阉猪…
in Turkish büyük besi domuzu…
in Russian свинья, боров…
in Indonesian babi…
in Chinese (Traditional) 動物, （尤指供食用的）豬, （供食用的）閹豬…
in Polish wieprz…
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