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swine

[ swahyn ]

noun

plural swine.
  1. any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products. Compare hog, pig 1, wild boar.
  2. the domestic hog, Sus scrofa.
  3. a coarse, gross, or brutishly sensual person.
  4. a contemptible person.


swine

/ ɲɪ /

noun

  1. swines a coarse or contemptible person
  2. swine another name for a pig
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈɾԱˌ, adjective
  • ˈɾԾԱ, noun
  • ˈɾԾ, adverb
  • ˈɾԾ, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ɾԱl adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of swine1

before 900; Middle English; Old English ī; cognate with German Schwein hog, Latin īԳܲ (adj.) porcine; akin to sow 2
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of swine1

Old English ī; related to Old Norse ī, Gothic swein, Latin īԳܲ relating to swine
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Idioms and Phrases

see cast pearls before swine .
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Example Sentences

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Human respiratory physiology is more like that of swines than felines.

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When patients are positive on a general flu test — a common diagnostic that indicates human, swine, or bird flu — clinics should probe more deeply, Nuzzo said.

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“African swine fever is spreading all over Europe,” said Michal Haring, a biologist from Slovakia, “and the wolf is a very good ‘doctor’ for this, suppressing the disease.

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Oregon state and federal officials confirmed Wednesday that H5N1 bird flu was found in a pig living Crook County — the first such swine infection reported in the current outbreak.

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Mr Bradshaw said African swine fever "could spread very rapidly through our pig herd and have huge, huge implications".

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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