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porkishness

noun

Etymology

From porkish + -ness.

  1. derived from porcus
  2. derived from porc
  3. inherited from pork
  4. suffixed as porkish — “pork + ish”
  5. suffixed as porkishness — “porkish + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being porkish.

    • Sanity appeals and argues; our rulers persevere in their customary porkishness, while we acquiesce and obey.
    • Peter Bowbrick comments that she might have been responding to the porkishness of the word 'hog'.
    • But it did have an essential porkishness that was hard to resist.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA