Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hoggish"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Hoggish \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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" [syn: {piggish}, {piggy}, {porcine}, {swinish}]


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