Synonyms for hog
- noun
- verb
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Pig — A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one
pig, boar, swine, animal, porker, glutton, sow, barrow, cormorant, sixpence, gourmand, gormandizer, gormandiser UK, gorger, greedyguts informal, epicure, belly-god dated, trencher-man dated
Other
Verb
monopolize, monopolise UK, bogart slang
Definitions
- n. 1
A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog.
- n. 2
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- n. 3
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar. An adult swine, at or above a certain body weight.
- v. 1
To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.
Related words
- Word family
- hog-ape hog-babe hog-baying hogchoke hogchoker hog-dogging hog-face hogfish
- Phrases
- hog plum sea hog hog bed left lane hog right lane hog hog cistern hog fennel hog loom
- Is a kind of
- swine porcine suidian mammal vertebrate
Example sentences
- pig Don't be such a pig! Leave some for everyone else.
- sow You're taking the wrong sow by the ear there, pal!
- boar The horses go into a panic at the sight of a boar.
By length
- 3 letters
- pig1, sow1
- 4 letters
- boar1, hogg1
- 5 letters
- swine1
- 6 letters
- animal3, tanner2, barrow2, bogart2, porker2, hogget, gorger
- 7 letters
- glutton, epicure3, grunter
- 8 letters
- shilling2, sixpence, gourmand2, squealer
- 9 letters
- cormorant3
- 10 letters
- monopolize4, monopolise, greedyguts
- 11 letters
- gormandizer, gormandiser
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (animal3 = 3 syllables).