单词 | porcine |
释义 | porcineadj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a pig or pigs.In quot. 1844 used humorously for: made of or with pig's flesh. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [adjective] > of or relating to or having the nature of a swine swinelyeOE porcine?a1425 swinishc1450 aprine1519 suillary1762 suilline1853 suid1864 suidian1880 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 169 (MED) Stronger þan þise bene gander grece & bullez grece..after vituline, i. calfez, & porcine, i. swynez. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Porcine, of or belonging to an Hog, hogish. 1717 F. Bellinger Tractatus de Fœtu Nutrito 46 For instance, Sows, amongst the Porcine Species, never can be observ'd to do it. 1744 A. Monro Ess. Compar. Anat. 5 Common to all Quadrupeds, the Porcine Kind excepted. 1844 T. Hood Sausage Maker's Ghost in Hood's Mag. Dec. 622 He..drove a trade In porcine sausages. 1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. II. 107 In this portion of the world the porcine genus are all hogs. One never hears of a pig. 1907 T. R. Holmes Anc. Brit. & Invasions of Julius Caesar i.ii. 54 Such a group, finding itself called, let us say, by the name of the pig,..would naturally believe that there was an intimate connexion between itself and the porcine species. 1983 G. Lord Tooth & Claw viii. 60 The porcine smell had long gone. 2002 K. Wimmers et al. in K. Schellander et al. Genomics & Biotechnol. in Livestock Breeding 71 We analysed the porcine cDNA sequence. 2. Resembling or suggestive of a pig, in respect of appearance, manners, etc.; piggish. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > coarse agrest?1440 robust1511 roynish1570 sowish1570 lubberlike1572 lubberly1580 ordinarya1586 roborean1656 porcine1660 coarse1680 crude1722 low1725 piggish1742 coarse-graineda1774 crass1861 coarse-fibred1872 barnyard1895 farmyard1911 rough as guts1919 1660 J. Gauden Mem. Bp. Brounrigg 236 Their Physiognomy is canine, vulpine, caprine, porcine, lupine or leonine. 1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 52 Porcine Deer..called, from the thickness of their body, Hog Deer. 1804 Times 31 Jan. 3/1 Two men at Wells, of porcine appetites,..ate, or rather devoured, a cabbage, weighing 12lb. 6oz. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. ii. 34 Do we hear of such a porcine exhibition of the philosophy of Epicurus as that of Cuzzoni..? 1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare (ed. 2) i. 64 Three doggrel sonnets..noticeable only for their porcine quality of prurience. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 264 Ronder was a huge porcine person and..his wife was a very magnificent woman. 1937 G. Greene in Night & Day 14 Oct. 39/2 It means Magda Schreider's deep-sunk eyes and porcine coquetry. 1992 Sunday Times of India 9 Aug. (Review section) 4/1 The authors..click a reproving tongue at the lamentable lapses into porcine behaviour by its chief navigator. Derivatives porˈcinity n. piggishness; the fact of resembling a pig; also occasionally used as a humorous title. ΚΠ 1852 G. A. Sala in Household Words 22 May 228/1 Very few customers do you see standing at the bar of the Green Hog; yet does its verdant porcinity considerable business with [the brewers] Barclay Perkins. 1973 Time Mag. 10 Sept. 54/2 Billie Jean must avenge the legions of women in chains, real or imaginary, who consider Riggs a male of supernaturally loathsome porcinity. 1986 Time Mag. (Nexis) 25 Aug. 59 Johnson gallantly allows to Her Porcinity [sc. Miss Piggy of the Muppets] that if they expose themselves to fans at an exclusive restaurant, ‘they'll probably climb over me to get to you.’ 1993 Spy (N.Y.) May 72/1 Limbaugh's style of bullying might arise from how he handles his own pink porcinity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425 |
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