piggishly

1. 1.

   in a piggish manner

   “piggishly, he took two pieces of cake”

Questions about piggishly

What does piggishly mean?

piggishly means "in a piggish manner".

How many syllables are in piggishly?

piggishly has 3 syllables and divides as pig-gish-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is piggishly a common word?

piggishly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.