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Hogger vs Hoggery - What's the difference?

hogger | hoggery |

As nouns the difference between hogger and hoggery

is that hogger is agent noun of hog; one who, or that which, hogs while hoggery is hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.

hogger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Agent noun of hog; one who, or that which, hogs.
  • * 1994 , James J Wilhelm, Ezra Pound: The Tragic Years, 1925-1972
    • Against these heroes are the puritans, the hoggers of profit, the shysters, the obfuscators, the do-nothings.
  • A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.
  • (slang) A marijuana cigarette
  • (curling) A shot that comes to rest short of or on the far hog line and is removed from play
    • English agent nouns

    hoggery

    English

    Noun

    (hoggeries)
  • Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
    • Crime and shame / And all their hoggery . — Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
  • A place where pigs are kept.
    • (Webster 1913)