porkishness

noun

porkishness

noun

Etymology From porkish + -ness.

1

The state or quality of being porkish.

  • Sanity appeals and argues; our rulers persevere in their customary porkishness, while we acquiesce and obey.1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 22, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:
  • Peter Bowbrick comments that she might have been responding to the porkishness of the word 'hog'.2003, Morwenna Griffiths, Feminisms and the Self: The Web of Identity, →ISBN:
1 more example
  • But it did have an essential porkishness that was hard to resist.2010, Food Arts - Volume 23, page 18:

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