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piggishness

noun

Etymology

From piggish + -ness.

  1. derived from *puk✻
  2. inherited from *picga✻
  3. inherited from pigge — “pig, piglet”
  4. suffixed as piggish — “pig + ish”
  5. suffixed as piggishness — “piggish + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being like a pig in one's character

    The quality of being like a pig in one's character; greediness, boorishness, or obstinacy.

    • The man was a glutton; his piggishness was legendary.
    • The old man's stubborn piggishness kept him from acknowledging that his wife was a better driver than he, even after his license was revoked.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for piggishness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA