Lamb vs Hog - What's the difference?
lamb | hog |
A young sheep.
The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food.
(figuratively) A person who is meek, docile and easily led.
A simple, unsophisticated person.
(finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
Of a sheep, to give birth.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To assist (sheep) to give birth.
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
(lb) An adult swine .
* 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission (ISBN 1457819899), page I-9:
A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
(slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a .
(UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
(nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
*1933 , (George Orwell), (Down and Out in Paris and London) , xxix
*:‘’Ere]] s' for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ' [['og, ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’
*1961 , Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
*:hog' (pl]] ' hog ). A shilling: (ca 1670), c.; in C.19–20, low [[slang, s.
A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
*1961 , Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
*:hog' (pl]] ' hog )... 2. In C.18–early 19, occ. a sixpence: also c., whence the U.S. sense. Prob. [[from, ex the figure of a hog on a small silver coin.
A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
*1961 , Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
*:hog' (pl]] ' hog )... 3. A half-crown: [[circa, ca 1860–1910.
To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
(nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
(nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
As nouns the difference between lamb and hog
is that lamb is a young sheep while hog is any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.As verbs the difference between lamb and hog
is that lamb is of a sheep, to give birth while hog is to greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.As a proper noun Lamb
is {{surname|lang=en|from=Middle English}.lamb
English
Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* lamb to the slaughter/like a lamb to the slaughter/come like a lamb to the slaughter * lamblike * lamb's lettuce * lamb's tongue * lambswoolVerb
(en verb)- The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.
Anagrams
* * ----hog
English
(wikipedia hog)Alternative forms
* (qualifier) 'ogNoun
(en noun)- Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs'. Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and ' hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.
- (Totten)
Hyponyms
* (shilling coins) white hog, black hogDerived terms
* groundhog * hedgehog * high on the hog * hogback, Hog's Back * hog-baying * hogcote * hog heaven * hog island * hog waller (hog wallow) * hog-wallowing * hog-wild * hog line * hog maw * hog-rubber * hog town * hogherd * hoggish * hoggishly * hoggy * hogshead * road hog * sea hog * whole hog, go whole hogVerb
(hogg)- Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.
- 2000 DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn-Dixie , Scholastic Inc., New York, Ch 15:
- The [...] air-conditioning unit didn't work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn-Dixie got in the library, he hogged it all.
- (Smart)
