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 →

2) More loosely, anyone (also a cyclist) who acts as if the road belongs to them. tree →

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 →
• Toad was a terrible roadhog, crashing car after car. tree →
• Don't be a roadhog on your bike – let others pass on the path. tree →
• The newspaper called the speeding driver a dangerous roadhog. tree →
• Dad grumbled about the roadhog who wouldn't let him change lanes. tree →
• A roadhog frightened the horses and scattered the hens. tree →

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!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «roadhog» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.