piggish
英 ['p?g??]
美['p?g??]
- adj. 饞嘴的；貪心的；豬般的
英英釋意
- 1. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy;
- "piggish table manners"
- "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"
- "swinish slavering over food"
英文詞源
- piggish (adj.)
- 1792, from pig (n.) + -ish. Until 20c. usually "stubborn, selfish; unclean, coarse;" association with greedy eating is more recent. Related: Piggishly; piggishness.