hoggery
/ˈhɒɡəɹi/
hoggery noun: hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
Noun
hoggery (plural hoggeries)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- piggishness, porkishness, egoism, egomism, egocentricity, interestedness, me-firstism, philauty, selfhood, selfishness
- Crime and shame
- A place where pigs are kept.
Synonyms of hoggery
- piggishness
- porkishness
- egoism
- egocentricity
- interestedness
- me-firstism
- selfhood
- selfishness
- self-absorption
- self-centeredness
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Forms of hoggery
| plural | hoggeries |
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Origin of hoggery
From hog + -ery.
Questions about hoggery
- What does hoggery mean?
- Hoggery means hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
- What part of speech is hoggery?
- Hoggery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hoggery?
- Hoggery is pronounced /ˈhɒɡəɹi/.
- What is the plural of hoggery?
- The plural of hoggery is hoggeries.
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