HOGGING

Definitions: HOGGING

HOGGING

Noun

1. Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Hog

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "HOGGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Blistered or fine-grained appearance of a polished surface, which is not rough to the touch, caused by polishing with a felt too soft or too wet or else under insufficient pressure. Source: European Union. (references)
Nuclear Energy & Physics	Bending of a turbine or other shaft upwards above its centre line. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: HOGGING

English words defined with "HOGGING": Hogchain, Hogframe. (references)

Specialty definitions using "HOGGING": hogging machine, hogging moment ♦ sagging moment. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Now let's move on to the real issue: Lisa's hogging of the maple syrup. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Dad, Denise is hogging the bathroom! (The Cosby Show; writing credit: Bob Shayne)

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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Photographed Prior to World War I. This steamer was delivered the Navy on 25 September 1917 and became USS Adirondack (ID # 1270). She served as a floating barracks as part of the Receiving Ship, New York Navy Yard, through World War I. Adirondack was returned to her owner on 24 January 1919. Note this ship's extensive hogging brace.Credit: NAVY.
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"HOGGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "HOGGING" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	95.45%	21	76,261
Noun (singular)	4.55%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	22	N/A

Expressions using "HOGGING": hogging frame ♦ hogging machine. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "HOGGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		огъване (sagging, translation), измятане (strain, wind). (various references)

Danish		froehud (drag, orange peel), brunst (estrus, fever, heat, oestrum, oestrus, rut, rutting period, state of being in heat), bøjning (bend, bending, diffraction, elbow union, field elbow, flection, flexion, flexure, inflection, inflexion, reverse bend), appelsinhud (cold surface, drag, orange peel, orange skin). (various references)

Dutch		ruizigheid (heat, rut), ritsigheid (heat, rut), kikkerhuidseffect (drag, orange peel), bronst (courtship, estrus, heat, oestrum, oestrus, rut, sexual desire, state of being in heat), berigheid (heat, rut). (various references)

Finnish		kiimassa oleminen (heat, rut), kiima (estrous cyde, estrus, heat, oestrum, oestrus, rut, state of being in heat), appelsiinipinta (drag, orange peel, orange skin), appelsiininkuoripinta (cold surface, drag, orange peel). (various references)

French		situation d'arc, rut, peau d'orange, peau de crapaud, chaleurs. (various references)

German		krümmend (cranking, crooking, curving, humping, writhing). (various references)

Greek		μπιμπικιασμένη επιφάνεια (drag, orange peel, orange skin). (various references)

Hungarian		hivalkodóan nagylábon él (to be hogging it), zabál mint egy disznó (to be hogging it), terpeszkedik (to be hogging it, to sprawl), mohón eszik (guttle, to be hogging it, to bolt sg down, to tuck sg away), gátlástalanul nagylábon él (to be hogging it), önzően magának tart meg vmit (to be hogging it), önzően magának követel vmit (to be hogging it). (various references)

Italian		pelle di rospo (alligator skin, cold lap, crocodile skin, drag, orange peel, smear, surface folding), Inarcamento (bowing, camber, hog, warp), estro (aptitude, bot fly, brake, estrus, fancy, heat, horsefly, inspiration, oestrum, oestrus, rut, rutting period, state of being in heat), calore (animation, ardour, estrus, fervency, fever, glow, heat, hotness, oestrum, oestrus, rut, state of being in heat, thermally, warmth). (various references)

Pig Latin		ogginghay

Portuguese		peste porcina (classical swine fever, hog cholera, hogback, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), pele de sapo (drag, ladder, orange peel, washboard), estro (heat, rut, rutting period, verve, vivacity), cio (heat, rut, sexual desire), casca de laranja (drag, gi, orange peel, orange skin, orange tree), calores (heat, rut), arqueamento para cima da turbina. (various references)

Russian		прогиб (deflection, deflexion, sag, swayback, whipping). (various references)

Spanish		piel de sapo (drag, ladder, orange peel, smear, washboard), piel de naranja (alligator skin, cold lap, cold surface, crocodile skin, drag, orange peel, orange skin, surface folding), grava (crushed stone, gravel, grit, metal), curvidad, curvado (bending, bent, camber, crook, edge bend, free-side bend, setting, spring), celo (bulling, estrus, fervor, fervour, heat, oestrum, oestrus, rut, state of being in heat, unction, zeal), buque con quebranto. (various references)

Swedish		kortklippning, brunst (estrus, heat, oestrum, oestrus, rut, state of being in heat), apelsinhud (drag, orange peel, orange skin). (various references)

Ukranian		кривизна (anfractuosity, bending, bent, bulging, camber, curvature, curve, flection, flexion), жолоблення (warp), прогин (buckling, whipping). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "HOGGING": shogging. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"HOGGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haggin, Higging, Hodgins, Hoggins, hoging, hogling, hohgant, Huaguang, huggings. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "HOGGING" (pronounced hô"ging)
4	-ô" g i ng	bogging, dogging, logging.
3	-g i ng	bagging, begging, binging, bootlegging, bragging, bugging, cataloging, cataloguing, chugging, clogging, debugging, demagoguing, digging, dragging, drugging, fatiguing, flagging, flogging, gigging, hugging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, lagging, leapfrogging, legging, lugging, mugging, nagging, pegging, plaguing, plugging, reneging, rigging, sagging, sandbagging, shrugging, slogging, slugging, snagging, snugging, tagging, tugging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-g-g-h-i-n-o"
	-2 letters: going, ohing.
	-3 letters: gong, hogg, hong, nigh, nogg.
	-4 letters: ghi, gig, gin, hin, hog, hon, ion, nog, noh.
	-5 letters: go, hi, ho, in, no, oh, on.
	Words containing the letters "g-g-g-h-i-n-o"
	+1 letter: shogging.
	+3 letters: hotdogging.
	+4 letters: dogfighting.
	+5 letters: watchdogging.
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