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Definition of swine in English: swinenounswʌɪnswaɪn 1North American formal A pig. Example sentencesExamples - His team did DNA studies that gave more evidence for the idea that prehumans acquired these tapeworms before cattle and swine were domesticated.
- The total cost is not known - this was due to the slaughtering of over 15,000 animals including cattle, sheep, goats and swine.
- A disease was introduced from unknown origins into the swine in California.
- I and found to my amazement that it was the pail holding the innards left over from the swine.
- Taeniid tapeworms have a global economic impact because of the production losses in domestic stock, including cattle and swine.
- The paper only addressed the occurrence of bird flu in pigs in 2003, and made no mention of his remark last week that it had re-emerged in swine this year too.
- An increased number of game animals, from red deer to wild swine, and trophy animals, such a wolves and bears, have been killed.
- The fungus is especially dangerous if it gets into corn fed to horses or swine.
- Spray-dried plasma protein from swine or cattle blood is equally effective and has been a major contribution to the success of early weaning programs.
- The same virus has been detected in humans and swine.
- The virus explosively increased among domesticated swine.
- Because of changes in the pork industry, which have occurred over the years, the prevalence of infection in swine and humans has declined dramatically in the U. S.
- The swine developed blistering which looked like foot and mouth disease which causes great concern to livestock people and even more to regulatory people.
- All swine within a three-mile radius of known infected animals have been killed.
- Systematic surveillance for influenza is currently limited to humans, chickens, swine and horses.
- For your brave action, I bestow on you the honor of skinning the swine.
- The only way to get the large swine into the boat without capsizing the craft was to build a makeshift floating ramp on the spot.
- Napah Virus, a severe respiratory disease that Malaysian farmers caught from their swine, originated in bats.
Synonyms hog, boar, sow, porker, piglet 2informal A contemptible or unpleasant person. what an arrogant, unfeeling swine! Example sentencesExamples - It's disgusting what these swines did to her - she could have been killed.
- The few times I did get stuff to do which involved first-hand journalism, the swines I needed to talk to either didn't want to talk or weren't there at all.
- Between 11 pm last night and 8am this morning the heartless swine crept into our front garden and took it.
- Well, they can all give me money, but no one does, the tight swine.
- We will take what you exploited from others, you capitalist swine!
- But he is living proof that you don't need to be a swine to get on,’ he said.
- I told you, I will not have you married to that swine.
- Then the cheeky swines said that it should be in London.
- Just some advice from me because I like you, you swine.
- You will pay for your offense, miserable swine!
- This leaves me, two businessmen who have suddenly started to drink up, the swines, and her in this corner.
- All the same, it does feel very nice when one comes across a great artist who is not an utter swine politically.
- Yet the swine who broke into and ransacked her home had not a moment's concern for her age or her condition.
- Taking her brother's arm, she said a silent prayer that this pirate would not die at the hands of that swine.
- I was so disgusted with myself that day, I felt like a swine.
- These arrogant swine actually think it is their RIGHT to decide what the public will be allowed to know!
- So you think you will just lie low and say nothing, do you, you leprous swine?
- They're just saying you're a low swine who'd rather play word games than keep your word.
- You'd have to be a real swine to have kept him a secret.
- Those words - her own excuse - should have reassured her, should have secured her faith that he was not an honourless swine, but they didn't.
Synonyms scoundrel, villain, rogue, rascal, brute, animal, weasel, snake, monster, ogre, wretch, devil, good-for-nothing, reprobate, wrongdoer, evil-doer - 2.1 A thing that is very difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
mist is a swine in unfamiliar country Example sentencesExamples - The initial ascent is deceptively steep: to be completely honest, it is a swine to climb.
- Its string of bitsy and complicated mosaics makes it a swine to maintain rhythmic cohesion.
- WiFi can be a swine to set up and won't necessarily work around large home.
- You are no doubt aware that grass is a swine to get out of cloth.
Derivatives adjective ˈswʌɪnɪʃˈswaɪnɪʃ Unpleasant or contemptible. Example sentencesExamples - Unlike his dull, swinish, and conventional brother, Claudius comes across as a cosmopolitan, knight-like figure.
- Standing in the way of elementary fairness was the propertied class, and its terror of what he called the swinish multitude.
- This is the language of the tavern, sir, low and swinish.
adverbˈswʌɪnɪʃliˈswaɪnɪʃli Meal done, the peasant is very soon snoring swinishly in his bed. Example sentencesExamples - You do not want to become wealthy in order to live swinishly, for the gratification of animal desires; that is not life.
- A lot of people today live swinishly, gratifying their own desires, and then they wonder why they're so miserable.
nounˈswʌɪnɪʃnəsˈswaɪnɪʃnəs He merely acknowledged, with his trademark fusion of cynicism and swinishness, what most people already know. Example sentencesExamples - This is what you run into: this swinishness - it's only opinion.
- The implication always being that swinishness is intrinsic to the artistic personality, and indeed that the greater the artistic genius, the greater the swinishness.
Origin Old English swīn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zwijn and German Schwein, also to sow2. pig from Old English: The word pig appears in Old English only once, the usual word being swine. In the Middle Ages pig at first meant specifically ‘a young pig’, as it still does in North America. Observations such as pigs might fly had a 17th-century parallel in pigs fly with their tails forward. An early user of the modern form was Lewis Carroll in 1865 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ‘ “I've a right to think,” said Alice sharply…“Just about as much right,” said the Duchess, “as pigs have to fly.” ’ In a pig in a poke, poke (Middle English) means ‘a small sack or bag’, now found mainly in Scottish English. The British phrase to make a pig's ear out of, ‘to handle ineptly’, probably derives from the proverb you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, recorded from the 16th century. In the children's game pig (or piggy) in the middle, first recorded in the Folk-Lore Journal of 1887, two people throw a ball to each other while a third tries to intercept it. This is behind the use of pig in the middle for a person who is in an awkward situation between two others. Piggyback has been around since the mid 16th century, but the origin of the expression has been lost. Early forms tend to be something like ‘pick-a-pack’ which seems to have been changed by folk etymology to the form we now have. See also hog
Rhymes align, assign, benign, brine, chine, cline, combine, condign, confine, consign, dine, divine, dyne, enshrine, entwine, fine, frontline, hardline, interline, intertwine, kine, Klein, line, Main, malign, mine, moline, nine, on-line, opine, outshine, pine, Rhein, Rhine, shine, shrine, sign, sine, spine, spline, stein, Strine, syne, thine, tine, trine, twine, Tyne, underline, undermine, vine, whine, wine Definition of swine in US English: swinenounswaɪnswīn 1North American formal A pig. Example sentencesExamples - His team did DNA studies that gave more evidence for the idea that prehumans acquired these tapeworms before cattle and swine were domesticated.
- Because of changes in the pork industry, which have occurred over the years, the prevalence of infection in swine and humans has declined dramatically in the U. S.
- All swine within a three-mile radius of known infected animals have been killed.
- The swine developed blistering which looked like foot and mouth disease which causes great concern to livestock people and even more to regulatory people.
- Spray-dried plasma protein from swine or cattle blood is equally effective and has been a major contribution to the success of early weaning programs.
- I and found to my amazement that it was the pail holding the innards left over from the swine.
- The virus explosively increased among domesticated swine.
- Systematic surveillance for influenza is currently limited to humans, chickens, swine and horses.
- The fungus is especially dangerous if it gets into corn fed to horses or swine.
- Taeniid tapeworms have a global economic impact because of the production losses in domestic stock, including cattle and swine.
- Napah Virus, a severe respiratory disease that Malaysian farmers caught from their swine, originated in bats.
- A disease was introduced from unknown origins into the swine in California.
- The total cost is not known - this was due to the slaughtering of over 15,000 animals including cattle, sheep, goats and swine.
- An increased number of game animals, from red deer to wild swine, and trophy animals, such a wolves and bears, have been killed.
- The paper only addressed the occurrence of bird flu in pigs in 2003, and made no mention of his remark last week that it had re-emerged in swine this year too.
- The same virus has been detected in humans and swine.
- The only way to get the large swine into the boat without capsizing the craft was to build a makeshift floating ramp on the spot.
- For your brave action, I bestow on you the honor of skinning the swine.
Synonyms hog, boar, sow, porker, piglet 2informal A person regarded by the speaker with contempt and disgust. what an arrogant, unfeeling swine! Example sentencesExamples - Just some advice from me because I like you, you swine.
- This leaves me, two businessmen who have suddenly started to drink up, the swines, and her in this corner.
- All the same, it does feel very nice when one comes across a great artist who is not an utter swine politically.
- We will take what you exploited from others, you capitalist swine!
- Well, they can all give me money, but no one does, the tight swine.
- You'd have to be a real swine to have kept him a secret.
- Yet the swine who broke into and ransacked her home had not a moment's concern for her age or her condition.
- Between 11 pm last night and 8am this morning the heartless swine crept into our front garden and took it.
- The few times I did get stuff to do which involved first-hand journalism, the swines I needed to talk to either didn't want to talk or weren't there at all.
- Those words - her own excuse - should have reassured her, should have secured her faith that he was not an honourless swine, but they didn't.
- They're just saying you're a low swine who'd rather play word games than keep your word.
- I was so disgusted with myself that day, I felt like a swine.
- I told you, I will not have you married to that swine.
- You will pay for your offense, miserable swine!
- These arrogant swine actually think it is their RIGHT to decide what the public will be allowed to know!
- So you think you will just lie low and say nothing, do you, you leprous swine?
- Then the cheeky swines said that it should be in London.
- Taking her brother's arm, she said a silent prayer that this pirate would not die at the hands of that swine.
- But he is living proof that you don't need to be a swine to get on,’ he said.
- It's disgusting what these swines did to her - she could have been killed.
Synonyms scoundrel, villain, rogue, rascal, brute, animal, weasel, snake, monster, ogre, wretch, devil, good-for-nothing, reprobate, wrongdoer, evil-doer
Origin Old English swīn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zwijn and German Schwein, also to sow. |