Meanings of hoggish in English

Often in matters of passion and conquest it is a singularly hoggish hog.

The young of the cow-bird is disproportionately large and aggressive, one might say hoggish.

It had a black, hoggish nose, but there were fangs in its great jaws.

The Master sent in another with a hoggish grunt which spoke of the energy behind it.

The life we lead down there is hoggish.

Well, I trust I am not hoggish.

But it will require only the slightest exercise of magic to make the exterior conform to the hoggish disposition.

I said; 'it is hoggish.

No use being hoggish toward the rest of 'em, providing we can keep the bulge on 'em in membership.

I had often been drunk, and high spirits had led to rash doings; but never to this hoggish catalepsy.

What disgusts me most of all is their being so well-fed, and that purely bovine, purely hoggish optimism of a full stomach.

Nothing more refreshing in these days of hoggish communistic cantthanthisgreatvoiceassertingthedivine, theeternalrightsoftheindividual.

I'm not so hoggish as to want to run away from a man who thinks he can get good out of my company.

In their hoggish way they feed well and lie warm-thephrase is their own favourite-andthey subsist like odious reptiles, fed from mysterious sources.

With regard to "feeding and clothing" Darius set Hamlin down as "very hoggish;" he also stated that he would sell slaves whenever he could.

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