Search Result for "hoggish":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy;
- Example: "piggish table manners"
- Example: "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"
- Example: "swinish slavering over food"
[syn: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hoggish \Hog"gish\, a. Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish. -- Hog"gish*ly, adv. -- Hog"gish*ness, n. [1913 Webster] Is not a hoggish life the height of some men's wishes? --Shaftesbury. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoggish": Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, asinine, avaricious, avid, beastly, bolting, bottomless, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, coveting, covetous, cowish, cowlike, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, deerlike, devouring, edacious, equestrian, equine, esurient, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, goatish, goatlike, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hircine, hogging, hoofed, horsy, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, monopolistic, monopolizing, monopoloid, mulish, omnivorous, overgreedy, ovine, piggish, polyphagic, possessive, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ruminant, self-seeking, selfish, sheepish, sheeplike, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, ungulate, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, wolfing
