hoggish
pronunciation
How to pronounce hoggish in British English:
UK ['hɒgɪʃ]
How to pronounce hoggish in American English:
US ['hɒgɪʃ]
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- Adjective:
- resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
Word Origin
- hoggish (adj.)
- "gluttonous," late 15c., from hog (n.) + -ish. Related: Hoggishly; hoggishness.
Example
- 1. His landlady was a hoggish woman .
- 2. Cao xinhua makes transportation and sale hoggish benefit person .
- 3. Don 't be so hoggish and share with your brother .
- 4. Be in all before modern society , moral evaluation is basic standard with hoggish heart and altruistic heart , arrived the modern society of market economy , moral evaluation is however achieve some kind of balance in order to be between hoggish heart and altruistic heart " just heart " be a foundation .