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hoggishly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English hoggish Middle English -ly English -ly English hoggishly From hoggish + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a hoggish manner.
    • And there was Talbot's great diseased appetite to corroborate a belief that expatriate educationists ate hoggishly. 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 318:

Forms

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most hoggishly Degree=Sup lexicographic
more hoggishly Degree=Cmp lexicographic