Piggish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Piggish \Pig"gish\, a.
     Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  piggish
       adj : resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish
             table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and
             his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering
             over food" [syn: {hoggish}, {piggy}, {porcine}, {swinish}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "piggish":
     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, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, hyperphagic,
     insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly,
     money-hungry, money-mad, mulish, omnivorous, overgreedy, ovine,
     polyphagic, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ruminant,
     sheepish, sheeplike, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish,
     unappeasable, unappeased, ungulate, unquenchable, unsated,
     unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, wolfing