Swine

//swaɪn//

Synonyms for "swine" (101 found)

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Closest matches (21)

animal antelope armadillo barrow bat beast berkshire boar bon vivant carpet knight cur cyrenaic dog drab duroc duroc-jersey elephant

Noun(4 words)

bastard cobbler cop copper

Strong matches (30)

epicure epicurean frump gilt gourmand gourmet hare hedonist heel heliogabalus hereford hog horse hound hyena insect kangaroo large white litterbug mammal

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mongrel

Noun(9 words)

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Related words (50)

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8 relation types

More general

3 entries

artiodactyl artiodactyl mammal even-toed ungulate

derived

36 entries

African swine fever virus Gadarene swine cast pearls before swine giant thorny-headed worm of swine go the entire swine mereswine microswine pearls before swine sea swine sea-swine seaswine swine fever swine flesh swine flu swine influenza swine-bread

Showing 16 of 36 words.

derived from

1 entries

sow

etymologically related_to

1 entries

sow

form of

1 entries

sow

has context

5 entries

derogatory pejorative plural swine plural swines slang

is a

1 entries

even toed ungulate

related to

7 entries

contemptible omnivorous pain pig police officer suidae ungulate

Translations

29 translations across 21 languages.

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

卑賤的人 /卑贱的人 noun (contemptible person)

Czech

1 entries

svině noun (contemptible person)

Danish

1 entries

svin noun (contemptible person)

Dutch

1 entries

smeerlap noun (contemptible person)

Finnish

1 entries

sika noun (contemptible person)

French

4 entries

garce noun (contemptible person)
porc noun (contemptible person)
salaud noun (contemptible person)
vermine noun (contemptible person)

German

1 entries

Schwein noun (contemptible person)

Hebrew

1 entries

חזיר noun (contemptible person)

Hungarian

1 entries

disznó noun (contemptible person)

Icelandic

1 entries

svín noun (contemptible person)

Indonesian

2 entries

bajingan noun (contemptible person)
bangsat noun (contemptible person)

Italian

1 entries

porco noun (contemptible person)

Japanese

1 entries

下劣な人 noun (contemptible person)

Korean

1 entries

돼지 noun (contemptible person)

Middle English

1 entries

swyn noun (contemptible person)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

خنزیر noun (contemptible person)
طوكوز noun (contemptible person)

Polish

1 entries

świnia noun (contemptible person)

Portuguese

1 entries

canalha noun (contemptible person)

Russian

2 entries

сви́нтус noun (contemptible person)
свинья́ noun (contemptible person)

Spanish

3 entries

canalla noun (contemptible person)
cerdo noun (contemptible person)
suido noun (pig)

Swedish

1 entries

svin noun (contemptible person)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It is like casting pearls before swine.

Source: tatoeba (43061)

This is like casting pearls before swine.

Source: tatoeba (280732)

Cast not pearls before swine.

Source: tatoeba (280733)

Do not cast pearls before swine.

Source: tatoeba (280735)

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