- (especially North American English) a pig, especially one that is kept and made fat for eatingTopics Animalsc2
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- (British English) a male pig that has been castrated (= had part of its sex organs removed) and is kept for its meat compare boar, sow2Topics Animalsc2
Word Originlate Old English hogg, hocg, perhaps of Celtic origin and related to Welsh hwch and Cornish hoch ‘pig, sow’.
Idioms
See hog in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo the whole hog
- (informal) to do something completely or to the highest degree
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