Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where hogs or swine are kept; a piggery.
- noun A collection of hogs or swine.
- noun Hoggishness; swinishness; brutishness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Hoggish character or manners;selfishness ;greed ;beastliness . - noun A place where
pigs are kept.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Neither shall ye allow the passed automobile to around thee go in turn, but by use of road-hoggery and acceleration, strive to maintain thy position.
Appropriate Selections from The Book Steve Perry 2007
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There have been multiple stories in the news in the last few months about schools, libraries, and colleges banning MySpace for reasons of bandwidth-hoggery which in a select few cases could be well-argued or what's being sold as "safety concerns," "behavior issues," or "user protection."
April 2006 2006
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There have been multiple stories in the news in the last few months about schools, libraries, and colleges banning MySpace for reasons of bandwidth-hoggery which in a select few cases could be well-argued or what's being sold as "safety concerns," "behavior issues," or "user protection."
MySpace Discussion 2006
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At the moment the most extraordinary confusion prevails, and no one can tell whether any particular stratagem will be hailed with applause as a bold and legitimate operation of war or universally condemned as a barefaced piece of bath-hoggery.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 Various 1898
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Never seen such amazing ball-hoggery, and showing off by waiting a couple of turns to have a touchdown, "because he could".
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Greg Howson 2010
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Never seen such amazing ball-hoggery, and showing off by waiting a couple of turns to have a touchdown, "because he could".
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Greg Howson 2010
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My line about Flash and my MacBook Pro is silly; Flash as a Web plugin is, as I myself have written, a resource hog, no matter how well the miraculous battery in my Apple laptop handles that hoggery.
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Never seen such amazing ball-hoggery, and showing off by waiting a couple of turns to have a touchdown, "because he could".
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Greg Howson 2010
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My line about Flash and my MacBook Pro is silly; Flash as a Web plugin is, as I myself have written, a resource hog, no matter how well the miraculous battery in my Apple laptop handles that hoggery.
MyAppleMenu 2010
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Never seen such amazing ball-hoggery, and showing off by waiting a couple of turns to have a touchdown, "because he could".
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Greg Howson 2010
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