- (especially North American English)
a pig, especially one that is kept and made fat for eating Topics Animalsc2(尤指喂肥供食用的)猪 - (British English)
a male pig that has been castrated (= had part of its sex organs removed) and is kept for its meat compare boar, sow2Topics Animalsc2(供食用的)阉公猪 see also road hog, warthog
Word Originlate Old English hogg, hocg, perhaps of Celtic origin and related to Welsh hwch and Cornish hoch ‘pig, sow’.
Idioms
go the whole hog
- (informal)
to do something completely or to the highest degree 彻底地做某事;贯彻到底