More than that was hoggish, but less was understandable. From Wordnik.com. [The Bear and the Dragon]
"Because they are more hoggish," the steward interrupted. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XIII] Reference
Leviathan is a monstrously big, hoggish, warship, studded with weapons and ammo. From Wordnik.com. [A challenge to Progressive Democrats] Reference
Below, Fishlegs hangs on tight as a wart-hoggish Gronckle flies through the air. From Wordnik.com. ['How to Train Your Dragon' breathes fire into the film genre] Reference
She glanced toward the doors, expecting to see the hoggish MacDonnell stumble back in, mopping his mouth with the back of his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
Fishlegs hangs on tight as a wart-hoggish Gronckle, a surprisingly likable grouch, flies through the air in How to Train Your Dragon. From Wordnik.com. [How to train yourself to spot a dragon] Reference
"We are not hoggish, you must know, Mr. Trotter," he told the farmer, as they were making their last preparations before starting forth. From Wordnik.com. [Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails] Reference
With regard to "feeding and clothing" Darius set Hamlin down as "very hoggish;" he also stated that he would sell slaves whenever he could. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall. From Wordnik.com. [Gryll Grange] Reference
It's not because we are hoggish and wasteful with oil. From Wordnik.com. [The Reality Check] Reference
It's thirty parts hoggish self-sufficiency, and ten parts ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold Trail] Reference
It had a black, hoggish nose, but there were fangs in its great jaws. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man] Reference
There is plenty of glamour about the most damnable crimes and hoggish. From Wordnik.com. [Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference
"It may be learned manners to be late, but to my thinking it's hoggish.". From Wordnik.com. [The Duel and Other Stories] Reference
All our industrious men were well behaved; and all our idle men were hoggish. From Wordnik.com. [A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.] Reference
We fellers are only havin 'a little fun with 'em for bein' so stuck-up and hoggish. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Roscoe Paine] Reference
America won't be allowed to be so hoggish for much longer so why not just enjoy it. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
(The game cast also includes Dennis Markam as his employer's hoggish aristocrat pal.). From Wordnik.com. [SF Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
The young of the cowbird is disproportionately large and aggressive, one might say hoggish. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference
The young of the cow-bird is disproportionately large and aggressive, one might say hoggish. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
And you will cosset him in them -- to save his hoggish dignity and buttress up his heavy pride. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
I went for 2Gb of RAM with mine and I'm glad - some of the video services can get rather hoggish. From Wordnik.com. [Code and Coffee] Reference
No use being hoggish toward the rest of 'em, providing we can keep the bulge on 'em in membership. From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
Lord! what a truly hoggish man he is; yet I cannot help envying him his oblivion to these surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne] Reference
Damayanti, far from exemplifying Hindoo conjugal devotion, simply afford fresh proof of the hoggish selfishness of the male Hindoo. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference
"One above the rest in speciall, That had an hog been late, ... did him miscall, That had from hoggish form him brought to natural.". From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Comus] Reference
"I don't believe he is rich enough to be hoggish," added Bobtail, whose impressions of Colonel Montague were not altogether favorable. From Wordnik.com. [Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot.] Reference
Why exculpate these institutions who brought havoc to the world as the result of their hoggish and gormandizing ways in the first place?. From Wordnik.com. [The Warped Zone] Reference
It's a pity to see a man in such a hoggish state! ". From Wordnik.com. [Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas] Reference
Their hoggish keepers, and maintaining fops?. From Wordnik.com. [The Age Reviewed] Reference
What a hoggish old hunks they took ye fer, didn't they, naow? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Duke of Stockbridge] Reference
"But, by the way, if we two are pig-headed, aren't you rather hoggish -- hedge-hoggish?. From Wordnik.com. [Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills] Reference
Or a thwarting hoggish nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
I don't want to be hoggish with him. From Wordnik.com. [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference
The life we lead down there is hoggish. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
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