WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
swin•ish
(swī′nish),USA pronunciation adj.
swin′ish•ly, adv.
swin′ish•ness, n.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025- like or befitting swine;
hoggish. - brutishly coarse, gross, or sensual.
- 1150–1200; Middle English; see swine, -ish1
swin′ish•ness, n.
swine /swaɪn/USA pronunciation
n. [countable], pl. swine.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Mammalsa stout mammal having a disklike snout and a thick hide usually sparsely covered with coarse hair. Compare hog,pig,wild boar.
- a rough, disgusting, or brutish person;
a person evoking a feeling of contempt.
swine (swīn),USA pronunciation
n., pl. swine.
swine′like′, adj.
- 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. Cf. hog, pig, wild boar.
- the domestic hog, Sus scrofa.
- a coarse, gross, or brutishly sensual person.
- a contemptible person.
- bef. 900; Middle English; Old English swīn; cognate with German Schwein hog, Latin suīnus (adjective, adjectival) porcine; akin to sow2
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