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Hoggish

adjective
1.
Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy.  Synonyms: piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish.  "The piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father" , "Swinish slavering over food"



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"Hoggish" Quotes from Famous Books



... received a thousand. This was mere guesswork, of course, and I took no notice of his taunts: did the brains that conceived the business deserve no payment? Was my labour to be counted as dross?—the humiliation, the blows which I had to endure while he sat in hoggish content, eating and sleeping without thought for the morrow? After which he calmly pocketed the twenty francs to earn which he had not raised one ...
— Castles in the Air • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... the human form, which you disgrace, and which I myself should be ashamed to keep a moment longer, were you to share it with me. But it will require only the slightest exercise of magic to make the exterior conform to the hoggish disposition. Assume your proper shapes, gormandizers, and begone to ...
— The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) • Various



Words linked to "Hoggish" :   gluttonous



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