Hog vs. Wog — What's the Difference?

A domesticated pig, especially a castrated male reared for slaughter.

Wog is an offensive and derogatory term in Australian English and British English usually applied to people from the Mediterranean region and Middle East, such as Southern Europeans and North Africans. In British English, it may also sometimes apply to people from the Indian subcontinent and certain other parts of Asia, such as the East Indies.

A large motorcycle, in particular a Harley Davidson.

Used as a disparaging term for a person of color, especially a person from northern Africa or western or southern Asia.

A young sheep before the first shearing.

Any person who looks in-between "white" and "black": originally specifically an Indian, but later also broadened to anybody of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean descent.

Take or use most or all of (something) in an unfair or selfish way

Specifically someone of Mediterranean descent; the word does not really have an "Indian" connotation in Australia.

Cause (a ship or its keel) to curve up in the centre and sag at the ends as a result of strain.

Abbreviation of polliwog

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.

A pollywog, or sailor who has never crossed the Equator.

A domesticated pig weighing over 54 kilograms (120 pounds).

A bug, an insect.

A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person.

A minor illness caused by bacteria, virus, intestinal parasite, etc.

One that uses too much of something.

A toy insect in parts that can be assembled, used in fund-raising games.

Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn.

(Scientology) A person who is not a Scientologist.

The wool from this type of sheep.

(Of soldiers stationed abroad) to sell something, especially illicit or stolen goods, to the local inhabitants.

(Slang) A big, heavy motorcycle.

To steal.

(Informal) To take more than one's share of

An offensive slang term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia

To cause (the back) to arch like that of a hog.

To cut (a horse's mane) short and bristly.

To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine.

(Nautical) To arch upward in the middle. Used of a ship's keel.

Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

(specifically) An adult swine contrasted with a pig, a young swine.

(slang) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share.

(slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.

(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.

A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.

A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.

(nautical) the effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop

(transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.

(transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.

(nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).

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.

A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.

A young sheep that has not been shorn.

A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.

A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.

To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.

To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

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.

A person regarded as greedy and pig-like

A sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared

Domestic swine

Take greedily; take more than one's share