swine
/swaɪn/
swine noun: a pig, an animal of family Suidae, especially in agricultural contexts. Also the plural of sow.
Noun
swine (plural swine or swines)
- A pig, an animal of family Suidae, especially in agricultural contexts.
- The Zimmermann farm raises swine for their meat.
- Pig, pork, the meat of pigs.
- Nah, I ain't Jewish. I just don't dig on swine, that's all.1994, Quentin Tarantino et al., Pulp Fiction
- The Book says don't eat no swine.
- A contemptible person, particularly one imbued with negative piglike characteristics, a greedy, lazy, dirty, and/or lecherous person.
- Thousands of workers and students screaming "Get out of town, you Nazi swine!" stormed a police barricade here today in an attempt to silence Adolf von Thadden, head of the right-wing National Democratic party.1969 September 21, "Protesters Mob German Rightist...", New York Times, p. 20
- Their captain's a swine, an evil bastard. Name of Cavendish.1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders
- A police officer.
- Keep your mouths shut. Don't tell the swine anything.
- A pain, any thing or task that is difficult, annoying, or unpleasant.
- That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.
- Synonym of wolffish.
- Synonyms:
- wolffish
Proper noun capitalized: Swine
Swine
- A small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1335).
Also used as
swine is also the plural of sow.
swine meaning in Indonesian
swine in Indonesian
- contemptible person
- bajingan, bangsat
Examples of swine in a sentence
- This whole fear over swine flu was unfounded; it was clearly an overreaction.
- Your lecture deserved a much better reception than it got. Pearls before swine!
- Swine influenza is an example of an orthomyxovirus.
Synonyms of swine
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Forms of swine
| plural | swine |
|---|---|
| plural | swines |
Origin of swine
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”). * In modern use, especially as a term of abuse, frequently a calque of German Schwein or its derivatives. * In reference to wolffish, a clipping of swinefish. Cognates Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish svin, Faroese and Icelandic svín, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).
Words formed from swine
- 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
- swinebread
- swine-bread
- swinecote
- swine fever
- swinefish
- swine-fish
- 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
Phrases with swine
Words that rhyme with swine
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- design
- divine
- combine
- pine
- spline
- consign
- frankenstein
- nine
- refine
- vine
- whine
- benign
- chine
- in line
- intertwine
- recline
- resign
- rine
- undermine
- wine
- affine
- anodyne
- dine
- gold mine
- incline
- malign
- opine
- outshine
- propine
- red line
- shrine
- syne
- tine
- trunk line
- tyne
- atrine
- berine
- bine
- brine
- cline
- confine
- disentwine
- einstein
- equine
- offline
- quine
- repine
- rhine
Questions about swine
- What does swine mean?
- Swine means a pig, an animal of family Suidae, especially in agricultural contexts.
- What is swine in Indonesian?
- Swine in Indonesian is bajingan, bangsat. See Swine meaning in Indonesian.
- What part of speech is swine?
- Swine can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce swine?
- Swine is pronounced /swaɪn/.
- What is the plural of swine?
- The plural of swine is swine.
Words near swine in the dictionary
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