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Definition of Hoggishness
1. Noun. An excessive desire for food.
Generic synonyms: Gluttony
Derivative terms: Greedy, Hoggish, Piggish
Definition of Hoggishness
1. Noun. The quality of being hoggish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hoggishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoggishness
Literary usage of Hoggishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Red Cross Magazine by American national Red cross (1917)
""Something that will help them to understand why they're fighting and what they're
fighting." "The rank, deep- rooted, hoggishness of European im- ..."
2. Construction Cost Keeping and Management: A Treatise for Engineers by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1922)
"Due to hoggishness on the part of managers and unreasonableness on the part of
workmen, the piece-rate system usually fails to accomplish the desired end. ..."
3. Cost Keeping and Management Engineering: A Treatise for Engineers by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1909)
"Due to hoggishness on the part of managers and unreasonableness on the part of
workmen, the piece rate system usually fails to accomplish the desired end. ..."
4. Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley by Charles Kingsley (1899)
"... and behave like a man, till the hoggishness died out of him, and the manliness
grew up and bore fruit in him, more and more each day. ..."
5. Pigeon Shooting: With Instructions for Beginners and Suggestions for Those by Albert William Money, Arthur Corbin Gould (1896)
"Nothing destroys sport so much as greed and hoggishness. ... Many clubs have been
broken up by the hoggishness of one or two good shots insisting upon ..."
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