hoggery

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hog +‎ -ery

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

hoggery (plural hoggeries)

  1. 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.
  2. A place where pigs are kept.

References[edit]

“hoggery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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