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hoggishly

hoggishly adverb: in a hoggish manner.

Adverb

hoggishly (comparative more hoggishly, superlative most hoggishly)

  1. In a hoggish manner.
    • And there was Talbot's great diseased appetite to corroborate a belief that expatriate educationists ate hoggishly.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 318

Forms of hoggishly

comparativemore hoggishly
superlativemost hoggishly

Origin of hoggishly

From hoggish + -ly.

Questions about hoggishly

What does hoggishly mean?
Hoggishly means in a hoggish manner.
What part of speech is hoggishly?
Hoggishly is an adverb.

Words near hoggishly in the dictionary

  1. hogging frame
  2. hogging frames
  3. hogging up
  4. hoggins
  5. hoggish
  6. hoggishly
  7. hoggishness
  8. hoggishnesses
  9. hoggism
  10. hoggledy-piggledy
  11. hoggledy-poggledy

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