Hog vs. Sow
Difference Between Hog and Sow
Hog➦
a domesticated pig, especially a castrated male reared for slaughter.
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Sow➦
To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.
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Hog➦
a large motorcycle, in particular a Harley Davidson.
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Sow➦
To scatter seed over (land, for example).
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Hog➦
a young sheep before the first shearing.
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Sow➦
To strew something around or over (an area); distribute something over
"The yard was sown with cement sculpture" (Ashley Warlick).
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Hog➦
take or use most or all of (something) in an unfair or selfish way
he never hogged the limelight
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Sow➦
To propagate; disseminate
sow rumors.
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Hog➦
cause (a ship or its keel) to curve up in the centre and sag at the ends as a result of strain.
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Sow➦
To scatter seed for growing.
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Hog➦
Any of various mammals of the family Suidae, which includes the domesticated pig as well as wild species, such as the wild boar and the warthog.
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Sow➦
An adult female pig, especially one that has had at least one litter.
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Hog➦
A domesticated pig weighing over 54 kilograms (120 pounds).
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Sow➦
The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.
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Hog➦
A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person.
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Sow➦
A channel that conducts molten iron to the molds in a pig bed.
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Hog➦
One that uses too much of something.
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Sow➦
The mass of metal solidified in such a channel or mold.
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Hog➦
Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn.
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Sow➦
A female pig.
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Hog➦
The wool from this type of sheep.
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Sow➦
A female bear, she-bear.
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Hog➦
(Slang) A big, heavy motorcycle.
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Sow➦
A female guinea pig.
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Hog➦
(Informal) To take more than one's share of
Don't hog the couch.
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Sow➦
A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
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Hog➦
To cause (the back) to arch like that of a hog.
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Sow➦
A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
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Hog➦
To cut (a horse's mane) short and bristly.
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Sow➦
A contemptible, often fat woman.
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Hog➦
To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine.
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Sow➦
A sowbug.
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Hog➦
(Nautical) To arch upward in the middle. Used of a ship's keel.
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Sow➦
(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
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Hog➦
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
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Sow➦
(ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
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Hog➦
(specifically) An adult swine contrasted with a pig, a young swine.
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Sow➦
(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
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Hog➦
(slang) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share.
Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog.
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Sow➦
(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
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Hog➦
(slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
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Sow➦
obsolete spelling of sew
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Hog➦
(UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
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Sow➦
To sew. See Sew.
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Hog➦
(nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
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Sow➦
To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside.
And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
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Hog➦
A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
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Sow➦
To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
[He] sowed with stars the heaven.
Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.
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Hog➦
A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
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Sow➦
To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.
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Hog➦
A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
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Sow➦
The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
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Hog➦
A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
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Sow➦
A sow bug.
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Hog➦
(nautical) the effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop
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Sow➦
A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
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Hog➦
(transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.
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Sow➦
A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
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Hog➦
(transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
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Sow➦
an adult female hog
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Hog➦
(nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
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Sow➦
place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;
She sowed sunflower seeds
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Hog➦
To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
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Sow➦
introduce into an environment;
sow suspicion or beliefs
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Hog➦
A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidæ; esp., the domesticated varieties of Sus scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
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Sow➦
place seeds in or on (the ground);
sow the ground with sunflower seeds
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Hog➦
A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
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Hog➦
A young sheep that has not been shorn.
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Hog➦
A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
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Hog➦
A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
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Hog➦
To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
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Hog➦
To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
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Hog➦
To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; - said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
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Hog➦
a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
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Hog➦
a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
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Hog➦
domestic swine
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Hog➦
take greedily; take more than one's share
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