swine
nounEtymology
From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”). Cognates Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).
Definitions
A pig (the animal).
- The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
A contemptible person (plural swine or swines).
A police officer
A police officer; a "pig".
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Something difficult or awkward
Something difficult or awkward; a pain.
- That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.
plural of sow
A small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref…
A small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1335).
The neighborhood
Derived
African swine fever virus, Blind Swine Mate, cast pearls before swine, Gadarene swine, giant thorny-headed worm of swine, go the entire swine, mereswine, microswine, pearls before swine, seaswine, sea swine, sea-swine, swine-bread, swinebread, swinecote, swine fever, swineflesh, swine flesh, swine-flesh, swine flu, swineherd, swineherder, swineherding, swinehood, swinehound, swine-hound, swine influenza, swinelike, swineling, swineman, swinemeat, swinepox, swinery, swinestone, swinesty, swineyard, swinish, throw pearls before swine
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for swine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA