hoggish, a.
(ˈhɒgɪʃ)
[f. hog n.1 + -ish.]
Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hog or pig; swinish, piggish; coarsely self-indulgent or gluttonous; filthy; mean, selfish.
| 1548 Thomas Ital. Dict. (1567), Ciacco, an hoggysh or slouenly man. 1552 Huloet, Hoggish, or of a hogge, porcarius, porcinus. 1581 G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 109 b, Those shew themselves most hoggish and cruel to strangers. 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 86 Grylle..did him miscall That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 375 Folke would say of one..unmanerly after an Hoggish kind, that he was borne at Hocknorton. 1711 Shaftesbury Charac. (1714) III. 228 Is not a hoggish Life the height of some Mens Wishes? 1842 Tennyson St. Sim. Styl. 174 With colt like whinny and with hoggish whine They burst my prayer. |
Hence ˈhoggishly adv.; ˈhoggishness.
| 1576 Gascoigne Diet Droonkardes (1789) 7 They are all eyther hoggishly dronke..or else they become Asses. 1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. II. 90 This hoggishnesse of his, this his vncivill carriage..did much trouble me. 1771 Smollett Humph. Cl. Let. to Lewis 28 Apr., Well! there is no nation that drinks so hoggishly as the English. 1864 Lowell Fireside Trav. 259 Santo diavolo! but what hoggishness! |