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porkishness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being porkish.

   Synonyms: hoggery, piggishness; see also Thesaurus:selfishness

   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 22, in Crome Yellow‎, London: Chatto & Windus:

     Sanity appeals and argues; our rulers persevere in their customary porkishness, while we acquiesce and obey.

   • 2003, Morwenna Griffiths, Feminisms and the Self: The Web of Identity, →ISBN:

     Peter Bowbrick comments that she might have been responding to the porkishness of the word 'hog'.

   • 2010, Food Arts - Volume 23, page 18:

     But it did have an essential porkishness that was hard to resist.