单词 | hoggish |
释义 | hoggishadj. Usually derogatory. Of, resembling, or characteristic of a hog; self-indulgent, greedy, lazy; dirty, slovenly; mean, selfish. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > animal nature in man > swinish swinelyeOE swinisha1200 hoggishc1475 porkish1545 hogling1650 c1475 ( Libel Eng. Policy (Rawl.) (1926) l. 314 (MED) Thus are they hoggishe and drynkyn wele ataunte. 1544 G. Joye Present Consol. Sufferers Persecucion sig. Aiiv These hoggishe Papistes and cruell persewers of the gospell & of the professours thereof. 1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. (1567) Ciacco, an hoggysh or slouenly man. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 109 b Those shew themselves most hoggish and cruel to strangers. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Bb2v Grylle..Did him miscall, That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 375 Folke would say of one..unmanerly after an Hoggish kind, that he was borne at Hocknorton. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter ii. xiv. 929 Those hoggish carles, that insatiately swill up the draffe of the world. 1664 T. Porter Carnival ii. i. 22 This comes on thy drowzy hoggish nature; You cannot rise, you, nor look unto your Business, Sirrah. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. i. 45 Is not a hoggish Life the height of some Mens Wishes? 1778 S. Neville Diary 9 Oct. (1950) x. 232 It is surprising what a hoggish manner these highlanders live in. 1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 61 With colt-like whinny and with hoggish whine They burst my prayer. 1890 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pig,..one who is hoggish; a greedy person. 1931 Amer. Mercury Feb. 212/1 The hoggish boarding-school boy who, having hidden a birthday cake from his underfed fellows, lost every crumb to mice more greedy than himself. 1979 D. Montgomery Workers' Control in Amer. i. 14 ‘Undermining or conniving’ at a brothers job was a form of hoggish behavior as objectional as running more than one machine. 2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon x. 157 The line, for Sergey Nikolay'ch, was about twenty million euros. More than that was hoggish, but less was understandable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1475 |
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