Definitions for piggish

piggish pig·gish

Spelling: [pig-ish]
IPA: /ˈpɪg ɪʃ/

Piggish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in piggish (gghiips).

Definitions for piggish

adjective

  1. resembling a pig, especially in being slovenly, greedy, or gluttonous:
  2. (of food portions) indecently large.
  3. stubborn.

Origin of piggish

First recorded in 1810-20; pig1 + -ish1

Examples for piggish

He was selfish and priggish and worse, he was piggish—A regular beast of a brute.

Dot was rather inclined to think that this was piggish on Sandys part.

To be piggish as you and I have been all our lives does not seem to be just the thing for immortals to be doing.

And so I.  To crawl is piggish; but to not crawl, to be as the clod and rock, is loathsome to contemplate.

If he cuts off a woman repeatedly, he comes across as rude or, worse, piggish.

Well, I never before believed that Mr. Gander would be so piggish!

But, in his piggish way, Messer Simone had a kind of knowledge of men.

Third, legal academia has to get its collective head out of the sand and stop being so piggish (I am mixing my metaphors).

What was the use of all that noise and crowding and piggish hurry?

But I do wish you'd eat something—it's so piggish of you not to—really it is!

Word Value for piggish
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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