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Hoggery vs Coggery - What's the difference?

hoggery | coggery |

As nouns the difference between hoggery and coggery

is that hoggery is hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness while coggery is (obsolete) trick; deception.

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)

    coggery

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) trick; deception
  • * Bishop William Watson
    • Therefore can I not but often smile in my sleeue to heare and see the Iesuits coggery in euery thing