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Definition of Piggish
1. Adjective. Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy. "Swinish slavering over food"
Similar to: Gluttonous
Derivative terms: Hoggishness, Piggishness, Pig, Piggy
Definition of Piggish
1. a. Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.
Definition of Piggish
1. Adjective. greedy or gluttonous ¹
2. Adjective. pigheaded ¹
3. Adjective. Resembling a pig as being unpleasant or unclean ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Piggish
1. greedy or dirty [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piggish
Literary usage of Piggish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographia Hibernica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland by Richard Ryan (1821)
"... it being a series of pious meditations perpetually interrupted with records
of too much whiskey, piggish or swinish eating, and ill temper. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Alas ! for human wishes, Life's shadow reached the place, — The pig grew piggish
temper'd, - Forgetting Polly's face; And soon so gross and great he grew, ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"... ("piggish water"), and then to Ellengowan Bay, Port Dudfield, Argyle Bay,
through what we wished named Port Scratchley, and in to Mullens Harbour. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1880)
"It was a comical sight to see a troop of these animals careering down a street
at nightfall, and gradually diminishing in numbers as each piggish family ..."
5. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"We hunted on, and caught several more rabbits, but 1 did not get a chance at one,
nor would those piggish i"ogs give me even a smell of one alter they had ..."
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