Hoggish (Adjective)
Meaning
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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- His hoggish appetite led him to devour the entire pizza by himself in one sitting.
- She was appalled by the hoggish way her mother-in-law ate, shoveling food into her mouth without even chewing.
- The hoggish man grunted and snorted as he gorged himself on the buffet, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.
- After years of developing hoggish eating habits, Mark had become morbidly obese and developed serious health problems.
- Tourists complained about the hoggish locals who would aggressively grab food from vendors and eat with their hands, making a mess everywhere.