Bear
Bear verb - To bring forth from the womb.
Hog
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In Beowulf, our hero -now a king and becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the world- goes the whole-hog of taking off his armour, throwing away his sword, and ripping open his tunic to bear his chest to an enemy warrior, all the time telling him to kill him.
Source: Open Shirt Taunt - The Ren & Stimpy Show had an episode called "A Yard Too Far" that was basically the same plot as Yogi Bear's "Pie Pirates" episode except that the dog is replaced with a baboon and pies are replaced with hog jowls.
Source: Whole Plot Reference
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Hog and Bear. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bear/hog
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Hog or Bear. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bear/hog.
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