Word Study
hoggish
CIDE DICTIONARY
hoggish, a.
Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish. [1913 Webster]
"Is not a hoggish life the height of some men's wishes?" [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
hoggish
Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, asinine, avaricious, avid, beastly, bolting, bottomless, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, coveting, covetous, cowish, cowlike, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, deerlike, devouring, edacious, equestrian, equine, esurient, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, goatish, goatlike, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hircine, hogging, hoofed, horsy, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, monopolistic, monopolizing, monopoloid, mulish, omnivorous, overgreedy, ovine, piggish, polyphagic, possessive, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ruminant, self-seeking, selfish, sheepish, sheeplike, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, ungulate, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, wolfingFor further exploring for "hoggish" in Webster Dictionary Online