Hogging vs. Sagging — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hogging and Sagging
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Hogging
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.
Sagging
To sink, droop, or settle from pressure or weight.
Hogging
A domesticated pig weighing over 54 kilograms (120 pounds).
Sagging
To lose vigor, firmness, or resilience
My spirits sagged after I had been rejected for the job.
Hogging
A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person.
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Sagging
To decline, as in value or price
Stock prices sagged after a short rally.
Hogging
One that uses too much of something.
Sagging
(Nautical) To drift to leeward.
Hogging
Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn.
Sagging
To wear one's pants with the waist below the hips, so that one's underwear is visible.
Hogging
The wool from this type of sheep.
Sagging
To cause to sag.
Hogging
(Slang) A big, heavy motorcycle.
Sagging
The act or an instance of sagging.
Hogging
(Informal) To take more than one's share of
Don't hog the couch.
Sagging
The degree or extent to which something sags.
Hogging
To cause (the back) to arch like that of a hog.
Sagging
A sagging or drooping part or area
Tried to brush out the paint sags.
Hogging
To cut (a horse's mane) short and bristly.
Sagging
A sunken area of land; a depression.
Hogging
To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine.
Sagging
A sagging area; a depression.
Hogging
(Nautical) To arch upward in the middle. Used of a ship's keel.
Sagging
A decline, as in monetary value.
Hogging
Present participle of hog
Sagging
(Nautical) A drift to leeward.
Hogging
(slang) The targeting by men of overweight or obese women for sexual encounters, not due to sexual attraction but for amusement, or to take advantage of low self-esteem.
Sagging
The act of something that sags.
Hogging
Taking up too much of something so others cannot use it.
The child was hogging the arcade game.
Sagging
A manner of wearing pants or shorts below the waist, revealing some or all of the underwear.
Hogging
Drooping at the ends; arching; in distinction from sagging.
For a cantilevered beam, the steel reinforcement should be placed at the top to carry the hogging moment along the upper face.
Sagging
(of a person or clothes) Worn low on the waist, or wearing pants or shorts low on the waist.
Hogging
Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging.
Sagging
Hanging down loosely.
Sagging
Present participle of sag
Sagging
A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.
Sagging
Hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)
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