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# roadhog

«roadhog» in Mova's school dictionary: **A driver who drives selfishly and dangerously, too fast…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a roadhog, roadhogs; also «road hog»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A driver who drives selfishly and dangerously, too fast or taking up too much of the road so others cannot pass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadhog/#m1)

2) More loosely, anyone (also a cyclist) who acts as if the road belongs to them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadhog/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In The Wind in the Willows Toad becomes a roadhog after he falls in love with motor cars: he drives wildly, crashes cars, and is called a «road-hog» and worse at his trial. Early motorists in the 1900s were often blamed for frightening horses and people. For safety lessons: a roadhog ignores other road users; good drivers share the road. A hog is a pig, so the word calls the driver greedy like a pig.

### examples

- A roadhog in a big van zoomed past us on the narrow lane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadhog/#x1)
- Toad was a terrible roadhog, crashing car after car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadhog/#x2)
- Don't be a roadhog on your bike – let others pass on the path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadhog/#x3)
- The newspaper called the speeding driver a dangerous roadhog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadhog/#x4)
- Dad grumbled about the roadhog who wouldn't let him change lanes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadhog/#x5)
- A roadhog frightened the horses and scattered the hens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadhog/#x6)

### note

Countable. Written as one word, two words («road hog») or with a hyphen («road-hog»); all are fine. It is an insult, not a polite word.

### In the corpora

- [The Rat dances in the road shaking his fists at the vanished car: «You villains! ... you roadhogs!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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