PIGGISH

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

piggish (comparative more piggish, superlative most piggish)

greedy or gluttonous

pigheaded

Resembling a pig as being unpleasant or unclean

Source: Wiktionary


Pig"gish, a.

Definition: Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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