swine-likeadj.adv.
/ˈswʌɪnlʌɪk/, U.S. /ˈswaɪnˌlaɪk/ A. adj.
Characteristic of, resembling, or suggestive of a pig; like that of a pig; swinish.Often with reference to negative characteristics traditionally associated with pigs, such as greed, laziness, uncleanliness, lasciviousness, etc.; cf. swine n. 2a.
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1557 R. Tottel in Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes Printer to Rdr. sig. A.iv And I exhort the vnlearned, by reding..to purge that swinelike grossenesse, that maketh the swete maierome not to smell to their delight.
1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. C2 Olde drunkards thinke they prolong their dayes, by their swinelike diet.
1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant xix In Pleasure's sincke, he takes a swinelike Pleasure.
a1687 H. More Disc. Several Texts Script. (1692) vi. 171 Whiles Religion is to whet our angry tusks in Controversie of Points..; it's no wonder that the Holy Church..be turned into the sink of Satan, and a stinking sty of Swine-like Epicures.
1793 G. Butt Poems II. 172 A swine-like drunkard, wallowing on the ground.
1855 Knickerbocker May 473 Finally..we reached the spot—a swine-like smell having attracted us thither.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 May 11/1 Creatures more swine-like than human.
1924 Adventure 30 Dec. 54/2 The sea-hog, as the porpoise is called because of his swine-like head, is almost always victorious if the odds are anywhere near even.
2007 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 23 Nov. 9 Tickets were selling so slowly for John Howard's address to the National Press Club yesterday that local ACT Liberals had to be press-ganged into attending. Their swine-like behaviour astonished even the most hardened journalists.
B. adv.
In the manner of a pig; like a pig; swinishly.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adverb] > animal sensuality > swinishly
swinelyeOE
swinishly1542
hoggishly1573
swine-like1585
swinely1881
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. x. 156 Let vs not swinelike returne to wallowe in that slime againe.
1608 W. Burton Christians Heauenly Treasure f. 78 For commonly such kinde of reioycers or admirers of men, goe presently from the Sermon with the dog to eat vp their vomit, and Swine-like to tumble in their mire again.
1693 Leo of St. Mary Magdalen Pious Instr. 81 Feed not your Bellies, swine-like, to the knife.
1772 G. A. Stevens Songs Comic & Satyrical 46 So beggars and bunters unite, And swine-like on dirt make a feast.
1903 J. Payne Vigil & Vision 100 The world descends again into the dyke And wallows, swine-like, in the lewd return To barbarism of democracy.
a1972 J. Garrigue Stud. for Actress (1973) 53 The perpetual warnings of committees That we are rushing swine-like like lemmings Head on down the rocks to you-know-what.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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