Hoggery

Neither shall ye allow the passed automobile to around thee go in turn, but by use of road-hoggery and acceleration, strive to maintain thy position. ❋ Steve Perry (2007)

There have been multiple stories in the news in the last few months about schools, libraries, and colleges banning MySpace for reasons of bandwidth-hoggery which in a select few cases could be well-argued or what's being sold as "safety concerns," "behavior issues," or "user protection." ❋ Unknown (2006)

At the moment the most extraordinary confusion prevails, and no one can tell whether any particular stratagem will be hailed with applause as a bold and legitimate operation of war or universally condemned as a barefaced piece of bath-hoggery. ❋ Various (1898)

My line about Flash and my MacBook Pro is silly; Flash as a Web plugin is, as I myself have written, a resource hog, no matter how well the miraculous battery in my Apple laptop handles that hoggery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Never seen such amazing ball-hoggery, and showing off by waiting a couple of turns to have a touchdown, "because he could". ❋ Greg Howson (2010)

The Wall Streeters know the bond market intimately; they don't spend much time thinking about how to improve life for the vast swath of Americans who have suffered the mergers-and-acquisitions, the leveraged-buy-outs, the private equity hoggery, the CDO and ❋ Brad Reed (2010)

Where they aren't, we have podcasting and variations in file size to avoid bandwidth hoggery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's now just rebounding (from his ball hoggery, not literal rebounding). ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a plural, swine can be replaced not only by hogs and pigs but also by the seldom used hoggery, piggery, and porkery. ❋ Unknown (1978)

It took them ten days and 845 miles of “heroism and road hoggery” to get from John O’Groats to Lands End. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"wired" broadband costs billions of dollars per year for new internet pipe, with plenty of griping from carriers about videos and torrents and other bandwidth hoggery, hence all the buzz about net neutrality. ❋ Unknown (2010)