Synonyms for hogging
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : hawg, hog |
| Phonetic Transcription : hɔg, hɒg |
Définition of hogging
Origin :- late 12c. (implied in hogaster), "swine reared for slaughter" (usually about a year old), also used by stockmen for "young sheep" (mid-14c.) and for "horse older than one year," suggesting the original sense had something to do with an age, not a type of animal. Not evidenced in Old English, but it may have existed. Possibility of British Celtic origin {Watkins, etc.] is regarded by OED as "improbable." Figurative sense of "gluttonous person" is first recorded early 15c. Meaning "Harley-Davidson motorcycle" is attested from 1967.
- To go hog wild is from 1904. Hog in armor "awkward or clumsy person in ill-fitting attire" is from 1650s. Phrase to go the whole hog (1828) is sometimes said to be from the butcher shop option of buying the whole slaughtered animal (at a discount) rather than just the choice bits. But it is perhaps rather from the story (recorded in English from 1779) of Muslim sophists, forbidden by the Quran from eating a certain unnamed part of the hog, who debated which part was intended and managed to exempt the whole of it from the prohibition.
- verb be selfish
- "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
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