Meaning of HOGGISH
| Pronunciation: | | 'hogish
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| | Definition: | | [adj] 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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | gluttonous, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hog"gish\, a.
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, Apician, asinine, avaricious, avid, beastly, bolting, bottomless, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, coveting, covetous, cowish, cowlike, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, deerlike, devouring, edacious, equestrian, equine, esurient, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, goatish, goatlike, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hircine, hogging, hoofed, horsy, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, monopolistic, monopolizing, monopoloid, mulish, omnivorous, overgreedy, ovine, piggish, polyphagic, possessive, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ruminant, selfish, self-seeking, sheepish, sheeplike, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, ungulate, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, wolfing |
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