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swine
[ swahyn ]
noun
- the domestic hog, Sus scrofa.
- a coarse, gross, or brutishly sensual person.
- a contemptible person.
swine
/ swaɪn /
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Derived Forms
- ˈswineˌlike, adjective
- ˈswinishness, noun
- ˈswinishly, adverb
- ˈswinish, adjective
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Other Words From
- swinelike adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of swine1
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
Gerald Ford and the swine flu pandemic that never happened in 1976 is a cautionary tale that government action can backfire.
At “Iowa Swine Day” in 2013 he was voted the most effective speaker.
Reuters hedline: “Deadly swine virus sweeps U.S.” Disease is called porcine epidemic diarrhea.
In southern states like Texas, backyard encounters with feral swine have become routine.
Everyone in the mountains knew Hadji Murad, and how he slew the Russian swine.
That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.
There are only four characters, to be sure, but 322 they are such a troop of swine!
This saying reminds us of that of our great Master: "Cast not your pearls before swine."
Howbeit one place is there wherein would I never seek for such a man 62 as thou, and that is in the swine-sty.
Cattle and swine were raised in countless numbers, the former more for draft purposes and the products of the dairy than for beef.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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