hoggishly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hoggish +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

hoggishly (comparative more hoggishly, superlative most hoggishly)

  1. In a hoggish manner.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 318:
      And there was Talbot's great diseased appetite to corroborate a belief that expatriate educationists ate hoggishly.