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Hoggish   Listen
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Hoggish  adj.  Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish. "Is not a hoggish life the height of some men's wishes?"






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hoggish" Quotes from Famous Books



... third quality of the weather, the insistence upon the body and its indispensable satisfaction. No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating, drinking, or smoking, an uproarious materialism which to many women appears only hoggish. You may call the thing an orgy or a sacrament; it is certainly an essential. It is at root a resistance to the superciliousness of the individual. Nay, its very swaggering and howling are humble. In the heart of its rowdiness there is a sort of mad modesty; a desire to melt the separate ...
— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton

... to get some satisfaction from this, when, turning a bend of the path within two hundred yards of the castle, behold an unmistakable enemy barred his way!—an ugly, hoggish, obese man, with bare legs most grotesquely like pillars of granite, and a protuberant paunch; but the devil must have been in his legs to carry him more swiftly than thoroughbred limbs had borne Count Victor. He stood sneering in the path, turning ...
— Doom Castle • Neil Munro



Words linked to "Hoggish" :   piggy, swinish, hoggishness, gluttonous, piggish



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