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Hoggery vs Doggery - What's the difference?

hoggery | doggery |

As nouns the difference between hoggery and doggery

is that hoggery is hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness while doggery is (obsolete) a squalid tavern.

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)

    doggery

    English

    Noun

    (doggeries)
  • (obsolete) A squalid tavern.