What is "piggish" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does piggish mean in English? Meaning of piggish definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "piggish" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "piggish": resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy

Adjective

  • Meaning: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
  • Example: piggish table manners the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father swinish slavering over food
  • Synonyms: hoggish piggish piggy porcine swinish
  • Similar: gluttonous
  • Adjective: greedy or gluttonouspigheadedResembling a pig as being unpleasant or unclean
  • Synonyms:

    acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, gluttonous, grabby, grasping, hoggish, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intemperate, itchy, miserly, omnivorous, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, stingy, tight, voracious, esurient, gobbling, gormandizing, grudging, gulping, guzzling, insatiate, niggardly, pennypinching, prehensile, ravening, swinish, tight-fisted,

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    piggish in English: piggish
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