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- a domesticated pig, especially a castrated male reared for slaughter家养猪（尤指阉割过供屠宰的公猪）。
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- a feral pig野猪。
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- a wild animal of the pig family, for example a warthog猪科野生动物, 例如疣猪。
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- informal〈非正式〉a greedy person贪婪的人。
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- （亦作 hogg）dialect a young sheep before the first shearing〈方〉（第一次剪毛前的）小绵羊。
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- informal a large motorcycle〈非正式〉大号摩托车。
(hogged, hogging)with obj.
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- informal keep or use all of (something) for oneself in an unfair or selfish way〈非正式〉（不公平或自私地）全部占有（或使用）：
he never hogged the limelight.
他从不抢风头。
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- （一般作 be hogged）distort (a ship) by supporting it in the centre and allowing the bow and stern to droop使船中拱。
短语
go the whole hog
- informal do something completely or thoroughly〈非正式〉彻底地干, 干到底。
- ORIGIN: of several origins suggested, one interprets hog as the American slang term for a ten cent piece; another refers the idiom to one of Cowper's poems (1779), which discusses Muslim uncertainty about which parts of the pig are acceptable as food, leading to the whole hog' being eaten, because of confusion over Mohammed's teaching.
live high on（或 off）the hog
- N. Amer. informal〈北美, 非正式〉have a luxurious lifestyle生活奢华。
派生词
hogger
nounhoggery
nounhoggish
adjectivehoggishly
adverbhog-like
adjective词源
late Old English hogg， hocg, perhaps of Celtic origin and related to Welsh hwch and Cornish hoch 'pig, sow'.