hoggishness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
hoggishness
    n 1: an excessive desire for food [syn: {greediness},
         {hoggishness}, {piggishness}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hoggish \Hog"gish\, a.
   Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish. -- {Hog"gish*ly}, adv.
   -- {Hog"gish*ness}, n.
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         Is not a hoggish life the height of some men's wishes?
                                                  --Shaftesbury.
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