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hoggery

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[haw-guh-ree, hog-uh-] / ˈhɔ gə ri, ˈhɒg ə- /

noun

  • hoggeries
    plural
  1. piggery.

  2. slovenly or greedy behavior.


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Etymology

Origin of hoggery

First recorded in 1810–20; hog + -ery

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This awful hoggery was located on the road, now called East Street.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School

But naughtiness, with hoggery, not lacks When Peace another door in them unlocks, Where conscience shows the eyeing of an ox Grown dully apprehensive of an Axe.

From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

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