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HOGGISHNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hoggishness mean?
• HOGGISHNESS (noun)
The noun HOGGISHNESS has 1 sense:
1. an excessive desire for food
Familiarity information: HOGGISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An excessive desire for food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
greediness; hoggishness; piggishness
Hypernyms ("hoggishness" is a kind of...):
gluttony (habitual eating to excess)
Derivation:
hoggish (resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy)
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