hog

cerdo, puerco

Cerdo, especialmente uno grande criado en una granja.

En inglés sencillo: A pig, especially a large one kept on a farm.

• The farmer feeds the hogs.
• They raise hogs for meat.
• A large hog escaped from its pen.

Sinónimos: pig, swine

Expresiones frecuentes: a farm hog, feed a hog, hog farm

acaparador, glotón

Persona que toma demasiado para sí y se niega a compartir.

En inglés sencillo: Someone who takes too much and refuses to share.

• Do not be a hog; share the cake.
• That road hog would not let anyone pass.
• He is an attention hog who interrupts everyone else.

Sinónimos: greedy person, glutton

Expresiones frecuentes: a greedy hog, a road hog, a space hog

acaparar

Quedarse con algo e impedir que otros lo usen o disfruten.

En inglés sencillo: To keep something for yourself and prevent other people from using or enjoying it.

• Don't hog the computer.
• She hogged the bathroom all morning.
• Are you hogging the blanket again?

Sinónimos: monopolize

Antónimos: share

Expresiones frecuentes: hog the remote, hog the bathroom, hog the spotlight, hog the blankets