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Swine

//swaɪn// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pig (the animal).
  2. 2
    plural of sow archaic, form-of, plural
  3. 3
    stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals wordnet
  4. 4
    A pig (the animal). The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.; The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
  5. 5
    A contemptible person (plural swine or swines). derogatory
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  1. 6
    A police officer; a "pig". derogatory, slang
  2. 7
    Something difficult or awkward; a pain. derogatory, slang

    "That old car is a swine to manoeuvre."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”). By surface analysis, sow + -en. Cognates Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).

Etymology 2

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”). By surface analysis, sow + -en. Cognates Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).

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