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# hogg

«hogg» in Mova's school dictionary: **a surname, a family name used in Scotland and England…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (Hogg — a name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Hogg is a surname, a family name used in Scotland and England, for example the Scottish writer James Hogg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hogg/#m1)

2) (spelling) It is not the ordinary word «hog» (a pig), which has one g. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hogg/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In lessons it appears only as somebody's name. Nothing else is known about the person from the word itself.

### examples

- Mrs Hogg is our new class teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hogg/#x1)
- James Hogg was a Scottish poet called «the Ettrick Shepherd». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hogg/#x2)
- The letter was signed «T. Hogg». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hogg/#x3)
- Is it Hogg with two g's? Yes, H-O-G-G. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hogg/#x4)

### note

A name, written with a capital H. Not an English common word. Do not confuse with «hog» (a pig, or to keep something greedily for yourself).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hogg» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hogg/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.