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Hogged vs Cogged - What's the difference?

hogged | cogged |

As verbs the difference between hogged and cogged

is that hogged is (hog) while cogged is (cog).

As an adjective hogged

is (nautical) broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends.

hogged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hog)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (nautical) Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends.

    • cogged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cog)

    • cog

    English

    (wikipedia cog)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from (etyl) . See below.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
  • *, Bk.V, Ch.iv:
  • *:As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) (compare (etyl) . The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tooth on a gear
  • A gear; a cogwheel
  • An unimportant individual in a greater system.
  • * 1976, Norman Denny (English translation),
    • ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
  • * 1988,
    • Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do , then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog .
  • (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
  • (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
    • Derived terms
    * cog joint

    Verb

    (cogg)
  • To furnish with a cog or cogs.

    • Etymology 3

    Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trick or deception; a falsehood.
    • (William Watson)

    Verb

    (cogg)
  • to load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat
  • to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog .
  • To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll cog their hearts from them.
  • To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
    • to cog in a word
  • * J. Dennis
    • Fustian tragedies have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl) cogge

    Alternative forms

    * cogue

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small fishing boat
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