单词 | hoggishly |
释义 | hoggishlyadv. Usually derogatory. In a hoggish manner; in a manner suggestive of a hog. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adverb] > animal sensuality > swinishly swinelyeOE swinishly1542 hoggishly1573 swine-like1585 swinely1881 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 464 Thus hoggishly someth Pigghius against S. Augustine. 1576 G. Gascoigne Delicate Diet (1789) 7 They are all eyther hoggishly dronke..or else they become Asses. 1608 W. Crashaw Serm. preached at Crosse 144 For the Iesuits may say, this Pighius wrote so hoggishly in licentious times. 1707 E. Ward Barbacue Feast 19 As it is a Pig-Feast, the more Hoggishly we are serv'd, the more agreeable. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 93 Well, there is no nation that drinks so hoggishly as the English. 1826 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 5) 260 There are many 'squires, however, so hoggishly tenacious of their game, that..they continue their prejudice against cracked shot. 1873 Jackson Sentinel (Maquoketa, Iowa) 17 July In all communities there is a large class of men who are perfectly willing to reap the fruit of the labors of their more enterprising neighbors, but hoggishly refuse to pay anything for it. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ix. 169 I despised anyone who was not describable as a ‘gentleman’, but also I hated the hoggishly rich, especially those who had grown rich too recently. 1993 D. C. Reece Rich Broth v. 28 We..drank hoggishly of rotgut wine at lunch, deeply observed the siesta, then did a bit more culture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1573 |
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