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hoggish

hog·gish

uncommon

adjective

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”

Origin

From hog + -ish.

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