piggishnessn.
/ˈpɪɡᵻʃnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡɪʃnᵻs/ derogatory.
The state or quality of being piggish; piggish behaviour; squalid or dirty conditions.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > coarseness
coarseness1541
grossness1563
swinishness1591
piggishness1796
piggery1854
blowsiness1866
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
1796 in A. Fremantle Wynne Diaries (1952) xv. 186 The Queen had been kept in such piggishness..that she was quite an eskalleton.
1858 H. Mayhew Upper Rhine (1860) v. §3 277 Our friend..was fairly taken aback by the piggishness.
1889 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 23 Jan. 3/3 It served her right for her piggishness in occupying two seats.
1904 J. London Sea-wolf x. 97 To get it patented, to make money from it, to revel in piggishness with all night in while other men do the work.
2003 Boston Globe (Nexis) 27 Apr. e3 The French gourmand has been shedding its connotations of piggishness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1796