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Piggery.

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Usage examples (11)
  • Neither shall ye allow the passed automobile to around thee go in turn, but by use of road-hoggery and acceleration, strive to maintain thy position.
  • There have been multiple stories in the news in the last few months about schools, libraries, and colleges banning MySpace for reasons of bandwidth-hoggery which in a...
  • Where they aren't, we have podcasting and variations in file size to avoid bandwidth hoggery.
  • As a plural, swine can be replaced not only by hogs and pigs but also by the seldom used hoggery, piggery, and porkery.
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