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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024swine /swaɪn/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. swine. - 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.
swin•ish, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024swine (swīn),USA pronunciation n., pl. swine. - 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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