HOGGISH

hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish

(adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; “piggish table manners”; “the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father”; “swinish slavering over food”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

hoggish (comparative more hoggish, superlative most hoggish)

Having the characteristics of a pig

Having a gluttonous appetite

Source: Wiktionary


Hog"gish, a.

Definition: Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish.

– Hog"gish*ly, adv.

– Hog"gish*ness, n. Is not a hoggish life the height of some men's wishes Shaftesbury.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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