单词 | hoggishness |
释义 | hoggishnessn. Usually derogatory. The state or condition of being hoggish; hoggish character or behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality > swinish quality or behaviour hoggishness1614 hoggism1786 swinishness1791 swinehood1822 hoggery1834 swinery1846 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket vi. 280 Forbid..the rusticall Gergesites of their hoggishnesse. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 90 This hoggishnesse of his, this his vncivill carriage..did much trouble me. 1769 Another Estimate Manners & Princ. Present Times 92 They are swine in their sober hours; and it may be guessed how their natural hoggishness is heightened by the madness and bestiality of intoxication and debauchery. 1844 Era 11 Feb. 8/3 Earl Spencer, with a genuine Whig hoggishness, refuses to give up the presidency. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 259 Santo diavolo! but what hoggishness! 1913 G. P. Putnam Southland of N. Amer. xiii. 268 A very obnoxious English drummer, a typical mannerless third-rater, a mixture of ignorant asininity and brazen hoggishness. 1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South ii. i. 133 Hoggishness in enjoyment swelled naturally, on the principle that taboos which overpass what is possible to human nature in a given milieu are always the death of true restraint. 2003 New Yorker 10 Feb. 98/1 There is..no yielding to malice when he turns to a friend of notable hoggishness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1614 |
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