hoggery
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hoggery (plural hoggeries)
- Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “(please specify either |book=1 to 9 or the page)”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- Crime and shame
And all their hoggery.
- A place where pigs are kept.
References edit
“hoggery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.