pigginess

English

Etymology

piggy +‎ -ness

Noun

pigginess (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being piggy.
    • 2009 August 23, Alexander Star, “Richard Poirier: A Man of Good Reading”, in New York Times‎:
      No less a figure than Saul Bellow later complained that Mr. Poirier had made the magazine “look like a butcher’s showcase, shining with pink hairless pigginess, and adorned with figures of hand-carved suet which represent the very latest in art, literature and politics.”
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