Piggish

Definition: Piggish

Piggish

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 "piggish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

Synonyms: Piggish

Intemperance

Brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish.

Crosswords: Piggish

Albanian

makut (Edacious, esurient, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, mingy, miser, open mouthed, pecker, rapacious, voracious), i pangopur (gluttonous, insatiable, insatiate, rapacious, ravenous, sateless, voracious), i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, filthy, foul, hoggish, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, nasty, puddly, salacious, shut in, sordid, squalid, stained, stinking, vile, villainous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, dour, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scabrous, scratchy, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), ‏شره (avid, avidity, cormorant, gluttonous, gourmand, greed, greedy, gross, hoggish, lickerish, pig, predatory, solicitous, voracious, voracity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

упорит (asinine, constant, defiant, die hard, dogged, flinty, gritty, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard core, hard set, hardheaded, hard-shell, importunate, incompliant, indomitable, insistent, intractable, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, purposeful, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stolid, stout, stouthearted, strenuous, sturdy, tenacious, tough, unpliant, unremitting, unwearing, wilful, wrongheaded), разхвърлян (desultory, higgledy-piggledy, incoherent, messy, pell mell, scattered, unkempt, untidy), твърдоглав (contumacious, die hard, dogged, pigheaded, self-opinionated, uncompliant, wrongheaded), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), егоистичен (egoistic, selfish, thoughtless), лаком (avid, esurient, gourmand, grasping, greedy, gutsy, hoggish, lickerish, openmouthed, ravenous, voracious). (various references)

Czech

svinský (hoggish). (various references)

Farsi 

خوک مانند. (various references)

French

têtu, sale, goinfre (pig). (various references)

German

schweinische (swinishly). (various references)

Greek 

γουρουνοειδήσ (hoggish). (various references)

Hebrew 

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

Hungarian

piszkos (crappy, dingy, dirty, filthy, frouzy, greasy, grubby, messy, mucky, nasty, pigsty, pokey, poky, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, soiled, sordid, spotty, unclean, untidy), falánk (Edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gourmand, hoggish, piggy, ravening, ravenous, voracious). (various references)

Italian

maialesco. (various references)

Manx

sallagh (dingy, filthy, foul, grubby, impure, nasty, squalid), mucoil (hoggish, porcine, swinish), mucagh (swinish). (various references)

Pig Latin

iggishpay.(various references)

Portuguese

porco (boarish, dirty, grubby, hog, hoggish, obscene, pig, pork, swine, swinish, unwashed), sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, dirty, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, untidy, unwashed), sórdido (foul, mean, mucky, nasty, sordid, squalid, swinish), imundo (filthy, foul, mucky, squalid, swinish, unclean), grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden). (various references)

Romanian

murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), lacom (avid, covetous, craving, devouringly, edacious, esurient, glutton, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, hungry, insatiable, lickerish, open mouthed, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wishful, wolfish), de porc (piggy, porky). (various references)

Russian 

свинский (hoggish, porcine, swinish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svinjski (hoggish, porcine, pork, swinish), krmeći. (various references)

Spanish

puerco (cedar, filthy, foul, hog, mucky, nasty, pig, slatternly). (various references)

Swedish

svinaktig (boarish, hoggish), grisig (filthy), glupsk (avid, edacious, glutenous, gluttonous, greedy, open mouthed, piggy, ravenous, voracious), egoistisk (egoistic, egoistical, egotistic, egotistical, selfish, self-seeking). (various references)

Turkish

pisboğaz (gluttonous, gourmand, greedy, piglike, ravenous), obur (cormorant, edacious, esurient, glutton, gluttonous, gormandizer, gourmand, greedy, guzzler, hog, lickerish, open mouthed, ravenous, voracious), domuz gibi (hoggish, piglike, porcine, strong and healty, swinish), bencil (calculating, egoist, egoistic, egotistical, hoggish, self centered, self centred, self-absorbed, selfish, self-seeker, thoughtless), açgözlü (acquisitive, avid, covetous, esurient, grabber, grasping, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, open mouthed, piglike, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish). (various references)

Ukrainian

упертий (asinine, bullheaded, churlish, cobby, contumacious, cross-grained, difficile, disobedient, dogged, hard-nosed, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, patient, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, reluctant, restive, rowdy, self-opinionated, set, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), свинський (beastly, hoggish, swinish), свинячий (piggy, porcine), жадібний (acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, edacious, esurient, grasping, greedy, open mouthed, rapacious). (various references)

Welsh

mochynnaidd (swinish). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "piggish": piggishly, piggishness, piggishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Piggish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baggyish, Peggity, pggos, pigges, piggies, piggins. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: ghis, gigs, gips, hips, phis, pigs, pish, ship, sigh.

-4 letters: ghi, gig, gip, hip, his, phi, pig, pis, psi, sip.

-5 letters: hi, is, pi, sh, si.

+1 letter: priggish.

+2 letters: piggishly.

+3 letters: priggishly.

+4 letters: piggishness.

+5 letters: oligophagies, priggishness, spotlighting.