piggish
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6.9
- adjective
- /ˈpɪɡɪʃ/
- Offensive
- I am merely suggesting that if she wants a balanced discussion regarding men's piggish behavior, it would make the most sense to me to discuss the piggish behavior of women because I am of the mind that in 2012 there is a lack of pleasant behavior on both sides of the gender line.
- piggish grunt
- piggish face
Examples
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There is much more than our human consumeristic piggish concerns on this planet, and it's time to realize it and start living accordingly.
Blog text (12) -
Babe, who never used his nose for anything but the piggish pursuit of food, soon found he could make his way through the trickiest of smellscapes.
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Why are you Americans always are so piggish?
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"The smile remained stiffly in place, but his piggish brown eyes were serious.
Fiction book (1990) -
I remembered his piggish stamp of respectability.
Fiction book (2002) -
There was silence for a moment, and then a thoroughly piggish grunt, and the bulk was still.
Fiction book (1991) -
However, those ignorant, greedy, piggish buyers still got their chance to get out with their hides intact on Friday.
Blog text (19) -
I am merely suggesting that if she wants a balanced discussion regarding men's piggish behavior, it would make the most sense to me to discuss the piggish behavior of women because I am of the mind that in 2012 there is a lack of pleasant behavior on both sides of the gender line.
Blog text (7) -
Nothing stirred in the pens, no piggish grunts, no nervous clacking of a goat bell.
Fiction book (1992) -
His piggish habits led to him eating an entire cake by himself at the party.
Synonyms
3
8.3
Like a pig in look and behavior, often being fat or greedy
3
7.4
Greedy and messy while eating, showing bad manners
2
7.2
Someone who always eats or drinks too much
1
9.9
Very rude and greedy in behavior, like a pig
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9.1
A person who takes more than others, especially food, in a greedy, rude way
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5.2
Having messy, greedy, or rude manners
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7.9
Being greedy and taking more than your fair share of food or things
Antonyms
How Piglike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Piggish comes from the animal pig plus the ending -ish, which means 'like' or 'in the way of'. So calling someone piggish gives the image of a person behaving 'like' a pig — greedy, messy, or rude, especially at the table.