American English pronunciation

How to pronounce hog

IPA transcription: ['hɑɡ]

Hear “hog” pronounced

['hɑɡ]

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['hɑɡ]

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['hɑɡ]

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Noun

  • domestic swine

  • a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

  • a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared

Verb

  • take greedily; take more than one's share

Usage examples

  • Just align your car orthogonal to the parking lot.
  • Captured pieces are truly "captured" in cannon shogi.
  • "Wood for the pannage of forty hogs".
  • During his career, he produced fifty stone lithographs of scenes of Alaska.
  • Two of Hogan's six children are also politically involved in the state of Maryland.
  • These years of political unification led to the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • South of York Mills Road and Yonge Street sits the sub-neighbourhood of Hoggs Hollow.
  • The township was administered by Dover township and was part of Cuyahoga County.
  • A hedgehog was collecting brown leaves.
  • Farms which had tenant families might have several hog pens.