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Piggish vs Swinish - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between piggish and swinish

is that piggish is greedy or gluttonous while swinish is like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.

piggish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • greedy or gluttonous
  • pigheaded
  • Resembling a pig as being unpleasant or unclean

    • swinish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.27:
  • *:Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.