adj
Meaning 1
greedy or gluttonous
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
piggish
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/ˈpɪɡɪʃ/
adj
Meaning 2
pigheaded
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
unpleasant or unclean
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- piggish table manners
- the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father
- swinish slavering over food
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hoggish, piggy, porcine, swinish
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *puggōder. Old English *picga Middle English pigge English pig Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English piggish From pig + -ish.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: мръсен (mrǎsen) — unpleasant or unclean
- Bulgarian: свински (svinski) — unpleasant or unclean
- Italian: maialesco — unpleasant or unclean
- Plautdietsch: pukjrich — unpleasant or unclean
- Yiddish: חזיריש (khazerish) — unpleasant or unclean