Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place where hogs or swine are kept; a piggery.
  • noun A collection of hogs or swine.
  • noun Hoggishness; swinishness; brutishness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
  • noun A place where pigs are kept.

Etymologies

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hog +‎ -ery

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Examples

  • Neither shall ye allow the passed automobile to around thee go in turn, but by use of road-hoggery and acceleration, strive to maintain thy position.

    Appropriate Selections from The Book Steve Perry 2007

  • There have been multiple stories in the news in the last few months about schools, libraries, and colleges banning MySpace for reasons of bandwidth-hoggery which in a select few cases could be well-argued or what's being sold as "safety concerns," "behavior issues," or "user protection."

    April 2006 2006

  • There have been multiple stories in the news in the last few months about schools, libraries, and colleges banning MySpace for reasons of bandwidth-hoggery which in a select few cases could be well-argued or what's being sold as "safety concerns," "behavior issues," or "user protection."

    MySpace Discussion 2006

  • At the moment the most extraordinary confusion prevails, and no one can tell whether any particular stratagem will be hailed with applause as a bold and legitimate operation of war or universally condemned as a barefaced piece of bath-hoggery.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 Various 1898

  • Never seen such amazing ball-hoggery, and showing off by waiting a couple of turns to have a touchdown, "because he could".

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Greg Howson 2010

  • Never seen such amazing ball-hoggery, and showing off by waiting a couple of turns to have a touchdown, "because he could".

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Greg Howson 2010

  • My line about Flash and my MacBook Pro is silly; Flash as a Web plugin is, as I myself have written, a resource hog, no matter how well the miraculous battery in my Apple laptop handles that hoggery.

    "MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader 2010

  • Never seen such amazing ball-hoggery, and showing off by waiting a couple of turns to have a touchdown, "because he could".

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Greg Howson 2010

  • My line about Flash and my MacBook Pro is silly; Flash as a Web plugin is, as I myself have written, a resource hog, no matter how well the miraculous battery in my Apple laptop handles that hoggery.

    MyAppleMenu 2010

  • Never seen such amazing ball-hoggery, and showing off by waiting a couple of turns to have a touchdown, "because he could".

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Greg Howson 2010

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