pigginess

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

piggy +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

pigginess (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being piggy.
    • 2009 August 23, Alexander Star, “Richard Poirier: A Man of Good Reading”, in New York Times[1]:
      No less a figure than Saul Bellow later complained that Mr. Poirier had made the magazine “look like a butcher’s showcase, shining with pink hairless pigginess, and adorned with figures of hand-carved suet which represent the very latest in art, literature and politics.”