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swinish

adj
/ˈswaɪnɪʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English swinisse, swynys, swynyse; equivalent to swine + -ish.

  1. inherited from swinisse

Definitions

  1. Like a pig, resembling a swine

    Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.

    • Near-synonyms: boarish, boarlike
    • […]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…]
    • Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA