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