PIGGISHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piggishness mean? 

• PIGGISHNESS (noun)
  The noun PIGGISHNESS has 1 sense:

1. an excessive desire for food

  Familiarity information: PIGGISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIGGISHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An excessive desire for food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

greediness; hoggishness; piggishness

Hypernyms ("piggishness" is a kind of...):

gluttony (habitual eating to excess)

Derivation:

piggish (resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy)

 Context examples 

I held that life was a ferment, a yeasty something which devoured life that it might live, and that living was merely successful piggishness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is piggishness, and it is life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is a whim of mine to keep you aboard this ship, where my piggishness flourishes. And keep you I will.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You would like to go back to the land, which is a favourable place for your kind of piggishness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Of what use or sense is an immortality of piggishness? What is the end? What is it all about?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Bah! An eternity of piggishness!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And yet here you are, at the top of your life, where diminishing and dying begin, living an obscure and sordid existence, hunting sea animals for the satisfaction of woman’s vanity and love of decoration, revelling in a piggishness, to use your own words, which is anything and everything except splendid.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Not at all. To get it patented, to make money from it, to revel in piggishness with all night in while other men do the work. That’s my purpose. Also, I have enjoyed working it out.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)