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hoggeries

hoggeries is the plural of hoggery.

Meaning of hoggery

Noun

hoggery (plural hoggeries)

  1. Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
    • Crime and shame
      And all their hoggery.1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “(please specify either |book=1 to 9 or the page)”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC
  2. A place where pigs are kept.

Questions about hoggeries

What is hoggeries the plural of?
Hoggeries is the plural of hoggery.

Words near hoggeries in the dictionary

  1. hogger
  2. hogger pump
  3. hogger pumps
  4. hoggerel
  5. hoggerels
  6. hoggeries
  7. hoggeril
  8. hoggers
  9. hoggery
  10. Hogges
  11. hogget

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