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hoggish, a.|ˈhɒgɪʃ| [f. hog n.1 + -ish.] Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hog or pig; swinish, piggish; coarsely self-indulgent or gluttonous; filthy; mean, selfish.
1548Thomas Ital. Dict. (1567), Ciacco, an hoggysh or slouenly man. 1552Huloet, Hoggish, or of a hogge, porcarius, porcinus. 1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 109 b, Those shew themselves most hoggish and cruel to strangers. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 86 Grylle..did him miscall That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 375 Folke would say of one..unmanerly after an Hoggish kind, that he was borne at Hocknorton. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1714) III. 228 Is not a hoggish Life the height of some Mens Wishes? 1842Tennyson St. Sim. Styl. 174 With colt like whinny and with hoggish whine They burst my prayer. Hence ˈhoggishly adv.; ˈhoggishness.
1576Gascoigne Diet Droonkardes (1789) 7 They are all eyther hoggishly dronke..or else they become Asses. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. II. 90 This hoggishnesse of his, this his vncivill carriage..did much trouble me. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. Let. to Lewis 28 Apr., Well! there is no nation that drinks so hoggishly as the English. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 259 Santo diavolo! but what hoggishness! |