About The Word Hoggish
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Hoggish
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What's The Definition Of Hoggish?
[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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hoggish: gluttonous | piggish | piggy | porcine | swinish Related Terms | Find terms related to Hoggish: 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 See Also | Hoggish In Webster's Dictionary \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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