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Definition of Hoggish
1. Adjective. Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy. "Swinish slavering over food"
Similar to: Gluttonous
Derivative terms: Hoggishness, Piggishness, Pig, Piggy
Definition of Hoggish
1. a. Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish.
Definition of Hoggish
1. Adjective. Having the characteristics of a pig ¹
2. Adjective. Having a gluttonous appetite ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hoggish
1. coarsely selfish [adj]
Medical Definition of Hoggish
1. Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish. Hog"gishly, Hog"gishness, "Is not a hoggish life the height of some men's wishes?" (Shaftesbury) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoggish
Literary usage of Hoggish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"Her language, we arc further informed, ia only 'the hoggish Dutch ough, ough!
or the French owee, ..."
2. Suffolk Surnames by Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch (1861)
"—hoggish NAMES; SHOUT AND LONG; &c. IT has been estimated that English surnames
exceed in number thirty thousand. A perfect list of them all is probably ..."
3. The Theology of Modern Literature by Samuel Law Wilson (1899)
"... a writer condescending to the degradation of indulging in a kind of " hoggish
anatomy " of sexual and morbid themes which should only be nameable inside ..."
4. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1896)
"They care not for man, and will not adapt themselves to his notions, as other
beasts do ; but are true to themselves, and act out their hoggish nature. ..."
5. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1883)
"They care not for man, and will not adapt themselves to his notions, as other
beasts do ; but are true to themselves, and act out their hoggish nature. ..."
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