Meanings
nounpigginess (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being piggy.
No less a figure than Saul Bellow later complained that Mr. Poirier had made the magazine “look like a butcher’s showcase, shining with pink hairless pigginess, and adorned with figures of hand-carved suet which represent the very latest in art, literature and politics.”
2009 August 23, Alexander Star, “Richard Poirier: A Man of Good Reading”, in New York Times
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pigginess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pigginess
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“pigginess.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pigginess. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pigginess,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pigginess.
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