hoggery
English
Etymology
hog + -ery
Noun
hoggery (plural hoggeries)
- Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
- Crime and shame / And all their hoggery. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- A place where pigs are kept.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hoggery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)