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Hoggish vs Woggish - What's the difference?

hoggish | woggish |

As adjectives the difference between hoggish and woggish

is that hoggish is having the characteristics of a pig while woggish is (slang|pejorative|ethnic slur) exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a wog.

hoggish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the characteristics of a pig
  • Having a gluttonous appetite

    • woggish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, pejorative, ethnic slur) Exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a wog
  • * 1960 Manohar Malgonkar, Distant drum, Asia Pub. House, p60
    • I should have thought that we would have stopped all such woggish activities by now. I mean dancing and things.
  • * 1987 Anna Gibbs & Alison Tilson, Frictions, an anthology of fiction by women, Spinifex Press, p6
    • They were too unrestrainedly ethnic, too woggish (from another point of view), not middle-class enough for my father [...]
  • * 2006 Irfan Agha, Uncle Cuckoo, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu, p104
    • Thank God at least you don't speak with a woggish accent.