piggy
a young pig • Syn: piglet, shoat, shote • Derivationally related forms: pig (for: piglet) • Hypernyms: young mammal • Hyponyms: sucking pig • Member Holonyms: Sus, genus Sus
resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy - piggish table manners - the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father - swinish slavering over food • Syn: hoggish, piggish, porcine, swinish • Similar to: gluttonous • Derivationally related forms: pig, piggishness (for: piggish), hoggishness (for: hoggish)
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