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Definition of the day : « hogging »

  • verb be selfish
Example sentences :
  • "Now, here we have a battery of six hogging machines," he'd say.
  • Extract from : « The House of Torchy » by Sewell Ford
  • This is known as the "hogging down" method of harvesting corn.
  • Extract from : « North Dakota » by Various
  • So there was me, white in the face with grandeur, hogging the engine into the shed.
  • Extract from : « Plain Mary Smith » by Henry Wallace Phillips
  • We sit back and roast the trusts to a fare-you-well for hogging all there is in sight.
  • Extract from : « A Daughter of the Dons » by William MacLeod Raine
  • "I think the way you two fellows are hogging the Ys and captaincies around here is disgraceful," complained the Codfish one night.
  • Extract from : « Frank Armstrong at College » by Matthew M. Colton
  • She was so weak that she supported herself against a rock; at last she rolled on her back, hogging the dog in her fore paws.
  • Extract from : « Diary in America, Series One » by Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
  • To bend or give way from heavy weight; to press down towards the middle; the opposite of hogging.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • Having done this to their satisfaction they untied the hogging ropes and allowed the steers to gain their feet.
  • Extract from : « Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp » by Will C. Barnes
  • The fact still remains that Epsilon had better be habitable or Pan-Asia will scream we're hogging it.
  • Extract from : « Competition » by James Causey