Etymology

piggish

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Today it means: greedy or gluttonous Full definition →

English pig ← Middle English pigge ← Old English *picga
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*puggō
  2. Old English*picga
  3. Middle Englishpigge
  4. Englishpig
  5. English todaypiggish

From pig + -ish.

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