hog

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hog/hɒɡ/

▶noun

• 1 a pig, especially a castrated male reared for slaughter.

• 2 informal a greedy person.

• 3 informal a large motorcycle.

• 4 (also hogg) dialect a young sheep before the first shearing.

▶verb (hogs, hogging, hogged)

• 1 informal take or hoard selfishly.

• 2 distort (a ship) by supporting the centre and allowing the bow and stern to droop.

– phrases
go the whole hog informal do something completely or thoroughly.

– derivatives
hogger noun,
hoggery noun,
hoggish adjective,
hoggishly adverb,
hog-like adjective.

– origin OE hogg, hocg, perh. of Celtic origin.