Hogg
noun
James the Ettrick Shepherd, 1770–1835, Scottish poet.
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Hogg
American
[hog]
/ hɒg /
noun
Hogg
1
British
/ hɒɡ /
noun
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James, known as the Ettrick Shepherd. 1770–1835, Scottish poet and writer. His works include the volume of poems The Queen's Wake (1813) and the novel The Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
hogg
2
British
/ hɒɡ /
noun
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an uncastrated male pig
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a sheep of either sex aged between birth and second shearing
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The department’s monthly discipline roundup shows the 10-day suspensions given to Hogg and Alcocer are in line with punishments for more routine incidents, such as one officer found to have improperly pushed a civilian.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026
According to the leaked file reviewed by The Times, the LAPD’s internal investigators found Hogg made a “gross underestimation” of the explosive weight of the fireworks that police intended to detonate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026
Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Jason Hogg and Geraldine Winner, widow of the late filmmaker Michael who founded the trust, attended the ceremony.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
Victoria Hogg, whose husband Keith had been at Harbour House care home in Musselburgh, says she waited 18 months for £19,000 to be refunded by Morar.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
Gazoon′, used erroneously by Hogg for a compact body of men.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
By the time they are a year old, or a hogg, the Herdwick's fleece has turned a dark chocolate brown and their heads a milk white.
From BBC ● May 15, 2021
“And then of course, somebody gets online who wants me not to, you know – the boss hogg at least gets online and tries to mess that up,” Schneider said of the film's plot.
From Fox News ● Oct. 29, 2019
Those of Hartford sold a hogg, that belonged to the honored companie, under pretence that it had eaten of theire grounde grass, when they had not any foot of inheritance.
From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Irving, Washington
Now this angered the man still more, for he was a shepherd reputed to have great skill in sheep and esteemed the nicest judge of hogg and wether in all the countryside.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John
In the yarde one pumpe, pipes to convey the water to the brew house, fyve hogg styes, one house of office.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse
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