swineflesh

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swineflesh

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Inherited from Middle English swinflesch, equivalent to swine + flesh. Compare German Schweinefleisch (“pork”), Danish svineflæsk.

noun swine flesh · swine-flesh

archaic, literary, uncountable The flesh or meat of a pig; pork. If Malaga fell, then the Alhambra must also pass into the hands of the "eaters of swineflesh."
Similar: swinemeat, pigflesh, pigmeat

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@misc{swineflesh_2026,
  title = {swineflesh},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/swineflesh},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}