porkishness en · NOUN
Etymology
From porkish + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or quality of being porkish.
Peter Bowbrick comments that she might have been responding to the porkishness of the word 'hog'.
2003, Morwenna Griffiths, Feminisms and the Self: The Web of Identity, →ISBN:Sanity appeals and argues; our rulers persevere in their customary porkishness, while we acquiesce and obey.
1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 22, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:But it did have an essential porkishness that was hard to resist.
2010, Food Arts - Volume 23, page 18:
Synonyms
self-centeredness · selfhood · self-interestedness · suicism · egocentricity · porkishness · egomism · hoggery · selfishness · piggishness · self-absorption · self-servingness · philauty · me-firstism · egoism · hoggery · interestedness · solipsism · self-obsession