Dictionary Entry
hog
hog is a 3-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 12 senses
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- 1noun
A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
- 2noun
A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
- 3noun
A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- 4noun
A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- 5noun
A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
- 6transitive verb
To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
- 7transitive verb
To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- 8intransitive verb
To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
- 9noun
domestic swine
- 10noun
a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
- 11noun
a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
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- 12verb
take greedily; take more than one's share
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