hoggery

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/ˈhɒɡəɹi/

noun

Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.

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Meanings

nounhoggery (plural hoggeries)

plural hoggeries

  1. Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.

    Crime and shame And all their hoggery.

    1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “(please specify either |book=1 to 9 or the page)”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC

    Synonyms: piggishness, porkishness, egoism, egomism, egocentricity, interestedness, me-firstism, philauty

  2. A place where pigs are kept.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounHoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.

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piggishnessporkishnessegoismegomismegocentricityinterestednessme-firstismphilautyporkishnessselfhoodselfishnessself-absorptionself-centerednessself-interestednessself-obsessionself-servingnesssolipsismsuicism
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egocentricityegoisminterestednessme-firstismphilautyporkishnessself-absorptionself-centerednessselfhoodself-interestednessselfishnessself-obsessionself-servingnesssolipsismsuicism

Origin

From hog + -ery.

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APA

hoggery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoggery

MLA

“hoggery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoggery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hoggery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoggery.

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