# hog

> English word · Noun · IPA /hɒɡ/ · frequency rank #13,532

## Definitions
1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
2. An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
3. A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
4. A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
5. A young sheep that has not been shorn.
6. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
7. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
8. A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
9. A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
10. A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
11. The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
12. A penis.

## Etymology
From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to beat, hew, forge”).
Cognate with Old High German houwan, Old Saxon hauwan, Old English hēawan (English hew). Hog originally meant a castrated male pig, hence a sense of “the cut one”. (Compare hogget for a castrated male sheep.) More at hew.
Alternatively from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suH- and thus cognate with Welsh hwch (“sow”) and Cornish hogh (“pig”).

## Easily confused with
- **HR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hr)
- **HP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hp)
- **HQ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hq)
- **Hu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hu)
- **hv** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hv)
- **how** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-how)
- **hot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hot)
- **hop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hop)
- **huh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-huh)
- **hug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hug)
- **hub** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hub)
- **hon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hon)
- **hut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hut)
- **hum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hum)
- **hue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hue)
- **hoo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hoo)
- **hun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hun)
- **HUD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hud)
- **hwy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hwy)
- **hua** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hog-vs-hua)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/hog