a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

&lt(ə)nəs/ adj referring toeating too much. Synonym greedy

A sharper; a cheat; a greedy, dishonest fellow who eagerly preys upon others; a rapacious swindler, a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest, a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways, verb_ hunt shark, play the shark; act with trickery, transitive verb_ obsolete To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly, intransitive verb_ To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle, To live by shifts and stratagems, To take advantage of others for personal gain, especially by fraud and trickery

Any of various mammals of the family Suidae, having short legs, hooves with two weight-bearing toes, bristly hair, and a cartilaginous snout used for digging, including the domesticated hog (Sus scrofa subsp. domestica syn. S. domesticus) and wild species such as the bushpig, Informal A person regarded as being piglike, greedy, or disgusting, uncountable The edible meat of such an animal; pork, verb_ To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed, To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow, intransitive verb_ To give birth to pigs; farrow

(often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous