any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail

now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products. Compare hog pig wild boar

the domestic hog, Sus scrofa.

a coarse, gross, or brutishly sensual person.

a contemptible person.

adjective

porcine , swinish

noun

beast , boar , brute , hog , pig , sow