swine
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swine¹
- /swaɪn/
Rhymes with -aɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English swyn, swin; from Old English swīn; from Proto-West Germanic *swīn; from Proto-Germanic *swīną; from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”).
* In modern use, especially as a term of abuse, frequently a calque of German Schwein or its derivatives.
* In reference to wolffish, a clipping of swinefish.
Cognates
Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish svin, Faroese and Icelandic svín, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).
noun swine · swines
- A pig, an animal of family Suidae, especially in agricultural contexts. The Zimmermann farm raises swine for their meat.
- Pig, pork, the meat of pigs. Nah, I ain't Jewish. I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
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A contemptible person, particularly one imbued with negative piglike characteristics, a greedy, lazy, dirty, and/or lecherous person.
Thousands of workers and students screaming "Get out of town, you Nazi swine!" stormed a police barricade here today in an attempt to silence Adolf von Thadden, head of the right-wing National Democratic party.
Similar: assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asschunk, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot, assfuck, assfucker, asshat, asshead
- A police officer. Keep your mouths shut. Don't tell the swine anything.
- A pain, any thing or task that is difficult, annoying, or unpleasant. That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.
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Synonym of wolffish.
Similar: wolffish
noun
- plural of sow
Swine²
proper noun
- A small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1335).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: porcine, piggy, pork, porker, pigmeat, boar, hog, pig, hyaena, barn, salted, chops, sweating, erysipelas, sadistic, pigs
Translations
Talk about this word "swine." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/swine. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. swine. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/swine "swine." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/swine.Cite this
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