With the money Mr Johnson had saved, he would be able to live high on the hog when he retired.
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Hog
//hɒɡ//
Synonyms for "hog" (189 found)
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Closest matches (38)
Strong matches (57)
Related words (94)
Noun(37 words)
lone wolflonermake free withmake use ofmammalmisermonopolistmonopolizenarcissistoccupyopossumoverrunpigpiggypigletpiglingplatypusporkerpreemptpreoccupy
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prepossessratrazorbackrequisitionroad hogself-advancerself-pleaserself-seekerself-servershearlingshoatsit onslatternslovenslutsowsquat onsubjugatesuckling pigswinetake all oftake it alltake overtake possession oftake uptannertemporizertie uptimepleasertimeservertrenchermantrencherwomantufthuntertuskerusurpwild boar
Proper Noun(1 words)
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1 entriesderived
189 entriesShowing 16 of 189 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
7 entriesis a
4 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
45 entriesShowing 16 of 45 words.
Translations
126 translations across 57 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- χοῖρος noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- ὗς (hûs) noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Arabic
2 entries- خنزير noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- خِنْزِير noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Armenian
1 entries- խոզ noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Asturian
1 entries- gochu noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Belarusian
1 entries- свіння́ noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Bulgarian
3 entries- прасе noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- свиня́ noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- скъперник noun (greedy person)
Catalan
4 entries- acaparador noun (greedy person)
- cobdiciós noun (greedy person)
- marrà noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- suid noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Chickasaw
1 entries- shokha' noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 豬 /猪 noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Czech
2 entries- svině noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- vepř noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Danish
1 entries- svin noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Dutch
4 entries- varken noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- zwijn noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- inpikken verb (to take more than one's share)
- voor zichzelf opeisen verb (to take more than one's share)
Egyptian
1 entries- r:*r-i-E12 noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Estonian
1 entries- sigalane noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Finnish
4 entries- ahnehtija noun (greedy person)
- harrikka (HD) noun (large motorcycle)
- kitupiikki noun (greedy person)
- rohmu noun (greedy person)
French
2 entries- cochon noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- accaparer verb (to take more than one's share)
Galician
2 entries- acaparador noun (greedy person)
- cocho noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Georgian
1 entries- ღორი noun (animal of the family Suidae)
German
4 entries- Hausschwein noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- Sau noun (greedy person)
- Schwein noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- Vielfraß noun (greedy person)
Hebrew
1 entries- חזיר noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Hindi
1 entries- सूअर noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Hungarian
4 entries- disznó noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- kapzsi alak noun (greedy person)
- sertés noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- elfoglal verb (to take more than one's share)
Indonesian
2 entries- babi noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- moge noun (large motorcycle)
Irish
3 entries- borra noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- muc noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- muc noun (greedy person)
Japanese
4 entries- ブタ noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- 豚 noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- 独り占めする verb (to take more than one's share)
- 独占する verb (to take more than one's share)
Khmer
1 entries- ជ្រូក noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Korean
1 entries- 돼지 noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Latgalian
1 entries- vepris noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Latin
1 entries- sūs noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Latvian
1 entries- vepris noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Lithuanian
1 entries- meitėlis noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Schwäin noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Macedonian
1 entries- свиња noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Middle English
3 entries- hog noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- pigge noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- swine noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Māori
1 entries- poaka noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Navajo
1 entries- bisóodi noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Norwegian
1 entries- svin noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Occitan
1 entries- pòrc noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Ojibwe
1 entries- gookoosh noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Old French
1 entries- bacon noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Persian
2 entries- خوک noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- گراز noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schwien (nds) noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Polish
2 entries- wieprz noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- świnia noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Portuguese
2 entries- ganancioso noun (greedy person)
- suíno noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Romanian
1 entries- porc noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Russian
4 entries- бо́ров noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- вепрь noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- жа́дина noun (greedy person)
- мо́щный мотоци́кл noun (large motorcycle)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- svinja noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- свиња noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Slovak
1 entries- sviňa noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Slovene
1 entries- svinja noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Spanish
4 entries- cerdo noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- codicioso noun (greedy person)
- motaza noun (large motorcycle)
- puerco noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Swedish
3 entries- hoj noun (large motorcycle)
- svindjur noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- roffa åt sig verb (to take more than one's share)
Tagalog
1 entries- baboy noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Tocharian B
1 entries- suwo noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Ukrainian
3 entries- кабан noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- кнур noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- свиня́ noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Vietnamese
2 entries- heo noun (animal of the family Suidae)
- lợn noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Volapük
1 entries- svin noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Welsh
2 entries- bolgi noun (greedy person)
- mochyn noun (animal of the family Suidae)
Sample sentences
30 total sentences available.
They lived high on the hog for so long, and now they can't adjust to a simple life without luxuries.
Source: tatoeba (278001)
They're eating high on the hog.
Source: tatoeba (307703)
If I win the lottery, I'll be able to live high on the hog.
Source: tatoeba (320983)
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