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swine

[swahyn]

noun, plural swine.

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, wild boar.

the domestic hog, Sus scrofa.

a coarse, gross, or brutishly sensual person.

a contemptible person.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English swīn; cognate with German Schwein hog, Latin suīnus (adj.) porcine; akin to sow²

Related forms

swine·like, adjective

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World English Dictionary

swine (swaɪn)

—n , swines, swine
1.	a coarse or contemptible person
2.	another name for a pig

[Old English swīn; related to Old Norse svīn, Gothic swein, Latin suīnus relating to swine]

'swinelike

—*adj*

'swinish

—*adj*

'swinishly

—*adv*

'swinishness

—n

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Word Origin & History

swine

O.E. swin "pig, hog," from P.Gmc. *swinan (cf. O.S., O.Fris. M.L.G., O.H.G. swin, M.Du. swijn, Du. zwijn, Ger. Schwein), neut. adj. (with suffix *-ino-) from PIE *su- (see sow (n.)). The native word, largely ousted by pig. Applied to persons from c.1380.

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Swineherd is recorded from c.1100 as swynhyrde; swinish is from c.1200. Phrase pearls before swine is from Matt. vii.6; an early Eng. formation of it was:

"Ne ge ne wurpen eowre meregrotu toforan eo wrum swynon." [c.1000]

Which is a misreading of L. marguerite "daisy" as margarite "pearl."

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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Swine definition

(Heb. hazir), regarded as the most unclean and the most abhorred of all animals (Lev. 11:7; Isa. 65:4; 66:3, 17; Luke 15:15, 16). A herd of swine were drowned in the Sea of Galilee (Luke 8:32, 33). Spoken of figuratively in Matt. 7:6 (see Prov. 11:22). It is frequently mentioned as a wild animal, and is evidently the wild boar (Arab. khanzir), which is common among the marshes of the Jordan valley (Ps. 80:13).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

swine

see cast pearls before swine.

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