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Meaning of PIGGISH

Pronunciation:  'pigish

WordNet Dictionary
 
 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, hoggish, piggy, porcine, swinish
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pig"gish\, a.
Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 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, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, mulish, omnivorous, overgreedy, ovine, polyphagic, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ruminant, sheepish, sheeplike, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, ungulate, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, wolfing
 

 

 

 

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