eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 151 Porcinus strepitus, þæt swinlice gestun.

c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 92 (MED) Suche swynliche men and worse þan hogges..liggen and walewen, baþen hem in fleschli lustes and likinges as hogges in a dongehul.

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 116 Is not glotony & lichery swynely filth?

1890 11th Ann. Rep. Ohio Soc. Surveyors & Civil Engineers 86 The hog-wallow, in whose ample semi-fluid depth have basked in swinely glory many agone generations of hogs.

1891 Breeder's Gaz. 16 Dec. 445/3 The flush and perfection of swinely beauty.

1983 B. Niss New Eng. Naturally 79 The ‘woodchuck’..is not a pig, at least not in the swinely sense of the term, and it certainly does not hurl much wood.

2004 M. Lummis Temple of Elemental Evil 14 Few can say that half-orcs have been given an easy fate in life. Swinely in appearance, motley, and sometimes disfigured, the combination of two very unlike parents rarely results in a child of beauty.

1881 W. S. Blunt Love Sonnets Proteus cii. 115 These are the very Dacians they subdued, Swineherds and shepherds clad in skins of deer And fox and marten still, a bestial brood, Than their own swine begotten swinelier.

1905 H. P. Steger Let. 28 Sept. (1915) iii. 209 The wee, insignificant acorn which you so indifferently, even contemptuously, throw to the razor-back hog snoring so swinely under your table.

1992 Santa Fe New Mexican 9 Jan. b11/3 (advt.) Fashionably marked. Swinely intelligent. That's Ms. Tammy Fay Bacon, a 6 mo. old pot belly pig interested in living in the Santa Fe/Taos area.