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PIGGISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does piggish mean?
• PIGGISH (adjective)
The adjective PIGGISH has 1 sense:
1. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
Familiarity information: PIGGISH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
Synonyms:
hoggish; piggish; piggy; porcine; swinish
Context example:
swinish slavering over food
Similar:
gluttonous (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink)
Derivation:
piggishness (an excessive desire for food)
Context examples
To be piggish as you and I have been all our lives does not seem to be just the thing for immortals to be doing.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it’s life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And so I. To crawl is piggish; but to not crawl, to be as the clod and rock, is loathsome to contemplate.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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