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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