hoggery
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hoggery (plural hoggeries)
- Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “(please specify either |book=1 to 9 or the page)”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- Crime and shame
And all their hoggery.
- A place where pigs are kept.
References[edit]
“hoggery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.