Definitions for the word "hog" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A young sheep that has not been shorn.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 castrated male pig. 2 colloq. Greedy person. v. (-gg-) colloq. Take greedily; hoard selfishly; monopolize. go the whole hog colloq. Do something completely or thoroughly. hoggish adj. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
10. slang
a shilling.—_Old Cant._
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
11. slang
“to go the whole HOG;” “the whole HOG or none,” to do anything
with a person’s entire strength, not “by halves;” realized by the phrase
“in for a penny in for a pound.” Bartlett claims this to be a pure
American phrase; whilst Ker, of course, gives it a Dutch origin.—_Old._
“To go the whole HOG” is frequently altered by those people who believe
there is wit in circumlocution, into “the entire animal,” or “the
complete swine!”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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