hoggish meaning

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hoggish (adjective): resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy.

Definition of hoggish

  1. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
    • piggish table manners
    • the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father
    • swinish slavering over food

    Synonyms: piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish

    Similar: gluttonous

    Related forms: hoggishness

Scrabble score: 15 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with HO · words ending in SH · 7-letter words

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