Hoggish

Definition: Hoggish

Hoggish

Adjective

1. Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hoggish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Hoggish

Crosswords: Hoggish

Albanian

lakmitar (covetous, greedy, lickerish, predatory), i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, filthy, foul, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, nasty, piggish, puddly, salacious, shut in, sordid, squalid, stained, stinking, vile, villainous), egoist (egoist, egoistic, egotist, self centered, selfish, self-seeker, self-seeking). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أناني (asocial, egocentric, egoist, egoistic, greedy, self centered, self centred, selfish), ‏شره (avid, avidity, cormorant, gluttonous, gourmand, greed, greedy, gross, lickerish, pig, piggish, predatory, solicitous, voracious, voracity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свински (porcine, pork, swinish), като прасе, груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crude, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, glaring, graceless, gross, gruff, hard boiled, harsh, heavy, homespun, horny, loutish, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, raw, rough, rough-shod, rowdy, rude, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, uncouth, wild and woolly), неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, hairy, hideous, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, nasty, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, sour, tiresome, troublesome, ugly, unagreeable, unappetizing, uncongenial, uncool, undesirable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary, wicked), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), лаком (avid, esurient, gourmand, grasping, greedy, gutsy, lickerish, openmouthed, piggish, ravenous, voracious). (various references)

Czech

svinský (piggish). (various references)

French

goulu, goinfre, de porc, avare (hog). (various references)

German

schweinisch (dirty, hoggishly, pigging, piggish, piggishly, swinish), gierig (avaricious, avariciously, avid, avidly, grabby, greedily, greedy, lustful, piggishly, voracious). (various references)

Greek 

γουρουνοειδήσ (piggish). (various references)

Hebrew 

חזירי (piggish, porcine, porky, swinish). (various references)

Hungarian

falánk (Edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gourmand, piggish, piggy, ravening, ravenous, voracious), disznószerû, önzõ (assertive, egocentric, egoist, egoistic, egotist, self centered, self-interested, selfish, self-seeking). (various references)

Italian

� vido (voracious). (various references)

Manx

mucoil (piggish, porcine, swinish). (various references)

Pig Latin

oggishhay.(various references)

Portuguese

porco (boarish, dirty, grubby, hog, obscene, pig, piggish, pork, swine, swinish, unwashed), porcino (porcine, porky), grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), glut�o (gourmand, guttler, guzzler). (various references)

Romanian

porcos (filthy), lacom (avid, covetous, craving, devouringly, edacious, esurient, glutton, gluttonous, greedy, hungry, insatiable, lickerish, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wishful, wolfish), indecent (blue, dirty, free and easy, gross, immodestly, improper, indecent, lewd, naughty, racy, unprintable, unseemly). (various references)

Russian 

эгоистичный (egocentric, egoistic, egotistical, self centered, self centred, self-centred, selfish), свинский (piggish, porcine, swinish), жадный (avaricious, avid, covetous, edacious, esurient, glutton, grasping, greedy, insatiable, large-handed, locust, mingy, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, sharp-set, voracious). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

halapljiv (esurient, ravenous, sharp-set, voracious), svinjski (piggish, porcine, pork, swinish). (various references)

Spanish

cochino (dirty, filthy, moldy, mouldy, pig, swinish), avido (voracious). (various references)

Swedish

svinaktig (boarish, piggish). (various references)

Turkish

saygısız (brash, discourteous, disregardful, disrespectful, flip, flippant, impertinent, impious, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, irreverent, rude, stroppy, undutiful, unfilial, ungalant, unmannerly), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), domuz gibi (piggish, piglike, porcine, strong and healty, swinish), bencil (calculating, egoist, egoistic, egotistical, piggish, self centered, self centred, self-absorbed, selfish, self-seeker, thoughtless), açgözlü (acquisitive, avid, covetous, esurient, grabber, grasping, greedy, insatiable, open mouthed, piggish, piglike, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish). (various references)

Ukrainian

свинський (beastly, piggish, swinish), свиноподібний, егоїстичний (appropriate, egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, self centered, self centred, selfish), брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean), підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, beggarly, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastard, dastardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, grimy, hangdog, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, picayune, rascal, reprobate, scabbed, scoundrel, scummy, scurvy, small, sneaking, sneaky, vile, yellow dog). (various references)

Welsh

mochaidd (swinish). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hoggish": hoggishly, hoggishness, hoggishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hoggish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Goghish, Haggith, hogges, huggath, huggies. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: highs, hoggs.

-3 letters: ghis, gigs, gosh, high, hogg, hogs, shog, sigh.

-4 letters: ghi, gig, gos, his, hog, ohs, shh.

-5 letters: go, hi, ho, is, oh, os, sh, si, so.

+2 letters: hoggishly.

+4 letters: hoggishness.

+5 letters: churchgoings, roughhousing.