hoggery
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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 Meredith, George
This awful hoggery was located on the road, now called East Street.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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