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"HOGS" is a plural of: hog. |
Date "HOGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing fat, strong-looking hogs, foretells brisk changes in business and safe dealings. Lean hogs predict vexatious affairs and trouble with servants and children. To see a sow and litter of pigs, denotes abundant crops to the farmer, and advance in the affairs of others. To hear hogs squealing, denotes unpleasant news from absent friends, and foretells disappointment by death, or failure to realize the amounts you expected in deals of importance. To dream of feeding your own hogs, denotes an increase in your personal belongings. To dream that you are dealing in hogs, you will accumulate considerable property, but you will have much rough work to perform. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The domestic pig is usually given the scientific name Sus scrofa, though some authors call it S. domesticus, reserving S. scrofa for the wild boar. It has been a domesticated animal for approximately 5,000 to 7,000 years. The animal is found across Europe, the Middle East and extends into Asia as far as Indonesia and Japan. The distinction between wild and domestic animals is slight, and domestic pigs have become feral in many parts of the world (for example, New Zealand); feral pigs can cause substantial environmental damage. The family Suidae also includes about 12 separate species of wild pig, most also classified in the genus Sus.
Pig
Larger sow with piglet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Suidae Genus: Sus species: scrofa (or domesticus) Binomial name '' Sus scrofa'' Sus scrofa has four subspecies, each occupying distinct geographical areas. They are Sus scrofa scrofa (western Africa, Europe), Sus scrofa ussuricus (northern Asia and Japan), Sus scrofa cristatus (Asia Minor, India), and Sus scrofa vittatus (Indonesia).
Many different words in English identify different types of pig:
Pigs (or swine) that are allowed to forage may be watched by swineherds. A litter of piglets typically contains between 10 and 12 animals. Meat from pigs is called pork in general and ham, bacon or bologna in some cases. Their trotters are often sold as the jelly-like dish of pig's feet. Hog jowls are a popular soul food. The American pig-raising industry calls pork a white meat, as opposed to beef; "white meat" (such as poultry) is often considered healthier than "red meat." Both Islam and Orthodox Judaism forbid the eating of pork in any form, considering the animal to be unclean: no form of pig meat can be kosher or halal.
- adult male pigs are called boars
- adult females are called sows
- juvenile animals are called piglets and farrows
- young pigs between 100-180 pounds are called shoats
- a gilt is an immature female pig
- a barrow is a castrated male pig
- hog is used as a synonym of pig in the United States; in its original sense it means a castrated boar.
- swine is a plural noun meaning pigs
While pigs are raised mostly for meat, their skin is used as a source of leather. Their bristly hairs are also traditionally used for brushes.
Pigs, like humans, are omnivores, making them easy to raise: on a small farm or in a large household they can be fed kitchen scraps as part or all of their diet.
Pigs are the only mammal not to have sweat glands.
Miscellaneous
The pig is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. Believers in Chinese astrology associate each animal with certain personality traits. See: Pig (Zodiac).Zhu Bajie is a famous monster pig in the Chinese novel Journey to the West.
Pigs are commonly associated with greed and with dirt; the latter probably comes from their habit of wallowing in mud.
See also
- hog lot
- List of fictional pigs
Photos of pigs and piglets
Larger piglets Larger more piglets
Larger physiologist with piglets Larger sow and five piglets
Larger piglet Larger pig litter Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pig."
Synonym: HOGSSynonym: Pigs. (additional references) |
Crosswords: HOGS |
| English words defined with "HOGS": Bunodonts ♦ chitlings, chitlins, chitterlings ♦ family Suidae, farm ♦ grow ♦ haslet, hog plum, Hogpen, Hogreeve, Hogringer, Hogsty ♦ leaf fat, leaf lard ♦ pigs' feet, pigs' knuckles, produce ♦ raise, River hog ♦ Suidae ♦ Wart hog. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HOGS": Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 ♦ CALOPHYLLUM BRAZILIENSE, Carcass weight, CONVEYOR LOADER II, Custom feeders ♦ farm butcher, Formula pricing ♦ HEDGEHOG, Hog/corn ratio ♦ MEAT DRESSER ♦ Orchard ♦ Production contract, Pseudorabies ♦ regalia ♦ SACHARUM OFFICINALE, SALES REPRESENTATIVE, LIVESTOCK, SHACKLER, Small Hog Operation Payment, Steagall Amendment of 1941, SUPERVISOR, ABATTOIR. (references) |
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Screenplays | What a time we had; splashed through bogs, ate like hogs, slept like logs (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley) | |
Lyrics | And a Jimmy haulin' hogs (Convoy; performing artist: C.W. MCCALL) Convoy! OMAHA? Well, they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer shure (Convoy; performing artist: C.W. MCCALL) From a mail order catalog, money made by sellin' hogs ("Coal Miner's Daughter"; performing artist: Loretta Lynn) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Raising the Hogs the Market Wants (1955) Sticking Hogs (Front View) (1901) Hogs on the Rail (1901) Scalding and Scraping Hogs (1901) Driving Hogs to Slaughter (1901) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictured is an attendant in a green lab coat, kneeling in an outdoor kennel pen. He is stroking one of the hogs in the pen with him and looking over the several other hogs in the pen. These animals are probably going to be used in an experiment. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | "x + y + z + xyz = 0" by Marijke van Gans. The Lorentz/Einstein composition of two velocities creates this graph that hogs six edges of a cube. From inside DPGraph, click on Edit for more information. |
 | Large fans keep hogs in ferring house cool. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Finishing hogs on a farm in central Arkansas. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Hogs. Credit: USDA. |  | Four hogs in a farm lot. Credit: USDA. |
 | 4H kid with hogs. Credit: USDA. |  | Hogs wallow to ease heat in Culhain County, GA. Credit: USDA. |
 | Hogs being unloaded into stock yard. Credit: USDA. |  | Hogs eating (from behind). Credit: USDA. |
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 | Hogs grunting. |
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Joel Chandler Harris | Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck. |
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Health | Do not allow hogs to eat uncooked carcasses of other animals, including rats, which may be infected with trichinosis. (references) | |
Because many states have adopted laws requiring that all garbage fed to hogs be sterilized, fewer people get trichinosis. (references) | ||
The number of cases has decreased because of legislation prohibiting the feeding of raw meat garbage to hogs, commercial and home freezing of pork, and the public awareness of the danger of eating raw or undercooked pork products. (references) | ||
Economic History | Lithuania | In agriculture, Lithuania produces for export cattle, hogs and poultry. (references) |
Poland | Poland also is a significant producer of rapeseed, grains, hogs, and cattle. (references) | |
Poland | Agriculture: Products--grains, hogs, dairy, potatoes, horticulture, sugarbeets, oilseed. (references) | |
Trade | Finland | Among the products subject to these duties and fees are cereals, flour, certain fats and oils, fish products, butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, meat, cattle and hogs. (references) |
Pakistan | Items on the "negative" list include: translations of the Holy Koran without Arabic text; goods bearing words or inscriptions of a religious connotation; obscene pictures, writings, or inscriptions; horror comics; obscene, subversive and anti-Islamic literature; products and by-products of pigs, hogs, boars, or swine; fireworks; tanks and armored vehicles; artillery weapons; revolvers and pistols of prohibited bores; parlor games; gambling equipment; sculptures, worked ivory, alcoholic beverages, hazardous wastes, rollable scrap, woven fabrics of cotton, woven fabrics of synthetic stable fibers, carpets and other floor coverings, articles of apparel and clothing accessories, bed linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen, tarpaulin and tents, curtains and other furnishing articles and antiques exceeding one hundred years in age. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. |
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| "HOGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "HOGS" is used about 20 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 20% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "HOGS": wart-hogs. | |
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| Language | Translations for "HOGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Schweine (pigs, swines). (various references) | |
Italian | maiali. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ogshay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HOGS": hogshead, hogsheads. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "HOGS": cohogs, groundhogs, hedgehogs, mummichogs, quahogs, quohogs, sandhogs, shogs, warthogs. (additional references) | |
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"HOGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahog, ghog, hagas, hagus, heggs, Hgca, hges, hgg, hgss, higgs, hoag, hocs, hods, hoga, hoge, Hoges, hogf, hoggs, Hoggy, Hogh, hogi, hogsy, hogy, hoja, Holga, Holgus, homg, Hoog, hos, hoss, hots, hous, hows, hsg-si, huges, Moggs, Noggs, nogs, ogs, ohg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HOGS" (pronounced hÄ"gz) |
| 3 | -Ä" g z | bogs, clogs, dogs, frogs, jogs, togs. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gosh, shog. | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-o-s" | |
-1 letter: gos, hog, ohs. | |
-2 letters: go, ho, oh, os, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-o-s" | |
+1 letter: ghost, hoggs, hongs, shogs, sough, yoghs. | |
+2 letters: boughs, cohogs, coughs, doughs, galosh, ghosts, ghosty, ghouls, golosh, goyish, hogans, hosing, loughs, oghams, ogrish, oughts, roughs, shogun, slough, sorgho, soughs, sought, thongs, toughs. | |
+3 letters: bigshot, boggish, chegoes, chigoes, choughs, cloughs, coshing, dogfish, doggish, enoughs, fogyish, galoshe, gasohol, gauchos, ghettos, ghosted, ghostly, gnomish, goatish, godship, goloshe, gonophs, goodish, gophers, gorhens, goshawk, gothics, goulash, growths, gumshoe, gunshot, hagdons, hoagies, hogfish, hoggers, hoggets, hoggish, hognose, hognuts, hogties, hogwash, hoising, homages, hoosgow, horsing, hostage, hosting, hotdogs, housing, hugeous, joshing, longish, megohms, moshing, mugshot, noshing, noughts, ogreish, ohmages, outgush, photogs, pishoge, ploughs, quahogs, quohogs, roguish, sandhog, shoeing, shogged, shoguns, shooing, shoring, shotgun, shoving, showing, sloughs, sloughy, sorghos, sorghum, soughed, throngs, troughs, voguish. | |
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