Definition of Hoggishness

1. Noun. An excessive desire for food.

Exact synonyms: Greediness, Piggishness
Generic synonyms: Gluttony
Derivative terms: Greedy, Hoggish, Piggish

Definition of Hoggishness

1. Noun. The quality of being hoggish. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hoggishness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoggishness

hoggerel
hoggerels
hoggeries
hoggerpipe
hoggers
hoggery
hogget
hoggets
hoggin
hogginess
hoggings
hoggins
hoggish
hoggishly
hoggishness (current term)
hoggishnesses
hoggs
hoggy
hogh
hogherd
hogherds
hoghood
hoghoods
hoghs
hogleg
hoglegs
hoglet
hoglets
hoglike

Literary usage of Hoggishness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Red Cross Magazine by American national Red cross (1917)
""Something that will help them to understand why they're fighting and what they're fighting." "The rank, deep- rooted, hoggishness of European im- ..."

2. Construction Cost Keeping and Management: A Treatise for Engineers by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1922)
"Due to hoggishness on the part of managers and unreasonableness on the part of workmen, the piece-rate system usually fails to accomplish the desired end. ..."

3. Cost Keeping and Management Engineering: A Treatise for Engineers by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1909)
"Due to hoggishness on the part of managers and unreasonableness on the part of workmen, the piece rate system usually fails to accomplish the desired end. ..."

4. Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley by Charles Kingsley (1899)
"... and behave like a man, till the hoggishness died out of him, and the manliness grew up and bore fruit in him, more and more each day. ..."

5. Pigeon Shooting: With Instructions for Beginners and Suggestions for Those by Albert William Money, Arthur Corbin Gould (1896)
"Nothing destroys sport so much as greed and hoggishness. ... Many clubs have been broken up by the hoggishness of one or two good shots insisting upon ..."

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