hoe, n. 1. rake, trowel, spade, scuffle, scraper.
-v. 2. dig, scrape, spade, rake; harrow, weed, delve, dibble; cultivate, till. hog, n. 1. pig, sow, boar, razorback; peccary, wart-hog, babirusa; porker, grunter, oinker, tusker; swine, barrow; shoat, shote, piglet, pigling, piggy, suckling-pig, hogling.
2. Informal, a. glutton, cormorant, gourmand, eater; trencherman, big eater, wolf. b. monopolist, self-server, self-pleaser, self-seeker, egotist; road hog. -v. 3. keep for oneself, take for oneself, be selfish, monopolize, corner, tie up; have it all to oneself, take it all, SI. bogart.
hoggish, adj. 1. porcine, piggish, swinish.
2. selfish, egotistic, self-seeking, self-pleasing, selfserving; self-indulgent, self-devoted, self-centered; possessive, greedy, acquisitive, avaricious, covetous.
3. gluttonous, ravenous, voracious, edacious, rapacious, insatiable; glutting, gorging, omnivorous, crapulous.
4. filthy, dirty, foul, unclean, unwashed, slimy, Inf. gloppy; sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, muddy, miry. hogtie, v. hobble, tie up, truss up, tie hand and foot; manacle, enchain, handcuff, hamstring; restrain, shackle, gyve, fetter, strap; lash, leash, bind, tether, hopple, tie down; hamper, thwart, trammel, impede, hinder, frustrate, constrain, hold back. hogwash, n. I. swill, slop, refuse, Dial, culch; garbage, waste, offal; dregs, remains, offscourings; leavings, sweepings, scraps, orts, leftovers; remainder, residue, residuum, scum, filth.
2. junk, worthless stuff, trumpery; trifles, trinkets, gimcrackery, baubles, gewgaws, frippery; remnants, fragments, fag ends, bit and pieces, odds and ends; castoffs, rags, tatters, castaways, rejects, discards.
3. nonsense, falderal, gibberish, babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bavardage; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit, twattle, twattling; blather, blathering, drivel, driveling, drool, drooling; jargon, Greek, Chiefly Southern U.S. Choctaw; hocus-pocus, mumbo jumbo, abracadabra, fiddle-de-dee; moonshine, gobblede-gook, humbug, foam, froth, bunkum or buncombe, SI. bunk, U.S. SI. blah; flummery, Inf. hokum, SI. applesauce, SI. eyewash; rubbish, SI. tripe, refuse, Dial. culch, chaff, trash, Inf. truck, trumpery; tommyrot, Inf. rot, SI. garbage, SI. crap, SI. crock, SI. bull; balderdash, SI. horsefeathers, stuff, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. Inf. gammon, Brit. SI. tosh; fudge, foolishness, folly, rigamarole or rigmarole, am-phigory; footle, Inf. malarkey, SI. bushwa, SI. baloney, SI. bilge or bilge water, SI. meshugaas, Scot. and North Eng. haver; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. hooey, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle; idle talk, Inf. gab, SI. gas, palaver, palavering, palaverment; claptrap, rodomontade, fustian, bombast, rant, SI. hot air; Jabberwocky, jabber, jabbering, prate, prating; patter, pattering, gabble, gabbling; clack, clacking, clatter, clattering, rattling, SI. running off or on at the mouth; chatter, chattering, prattle, prattling, chippering, cackle, cackling; chit-chat, chitter-chatter, small talk, Anglo-Indian, bukh. hoi polloi, n. the common people, the masses, the vulgus, Archaic, the vulgar; commonalty, commonage, citizenry, demos; proletariat, plebians, third estate, bourgeoisie; the multitude, the many, the populace,