Porcine

//ˈpoʊɹ.saɪn// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A porcine animal: a pig, hog, boar, or related wild animal.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or being a pig.

    "Alas, your delicious sandwich has been slain. Gaius’ blow sent it sprawling from your hand and onto the dusty grass where its saucy, porcine contents splattered forth from its freshly-baked body."

  2. 2
    Similar to a pig.

    "Near-synonyms: boarish, boarlike"

  3. 3
    Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; severely obese. derogatory

    "Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:overweight"

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy wordnet
  2. 2
    repellently fat wordnet
  3. 3
    relating to or suggesting swine wordnet

Synonyms

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;amplebeer-belliedbigboarishboarlike

Antonyms

All antonyms
gaunt

Example

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"Alas, your delicious sandwich has been slain. Gaius’ blow sent it sprawling from your hand and onto the dusty grass where its saucy, porcine contents splattered forth from its freshly-baked body."

Etymology

From Middle English porcine, partly from Middle French porcin (from Old French [Term?]) and partly from its etymon, Latin porcīnus, from porcus (“pig”).

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