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hoggy

hoggy adjective: synonym of hoggish (“resembling a pig”).

Adjective

hoggy (comparative hoggier, superlative hoggiest)

  1. Synonym of hoggish (“resembling a pig”).
    • Then the packing-houses in making lard got to dumping into the pans everything — heads, feet, etc. — and made a product which was offensive, having, as witness said, a "hoggy taste."1887, National Live Stock Journal, volumes 3-5, page 108
    Synonyms:
    hoggish

Synonyms of hoggy

Forms of hoggy

comparativehoggier
superlativehoggiest

Origin of hoggy

From hog + -y.

Words formed from hoggy

Words that rhyme with hoggy

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about hoggy

What does hoggy mean?
Hoggy means synonym of hoggish (“resembling a pig”).
What part of speech is hoggy?
Hoggy is an adjective.

Words near hoggy in the dictionary

  1. hoggism
  2. hoggledy-piggledy
  3. hoggledy-poggledy
  4. hoggrel
  5. hoggs
  6. hoggy
  7. hoghead
  8. hogheads
  9. hogherd
  10. hogherds
  11. hoghide

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