单词 | swine |
释义 | swine —swinelike, adj. /swuyn/, n. , pl. swine. 1. 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. 2. the domestic hog, Sus scrofa. 3. a coarse, gross, or brutishly sensual person. 4. a contemptible person. [bef. 900; ME; OE swin; c. G Schwein hog, L suinus (adj.) porcine; akin to SOW2] |
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