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adj
Of, pertaining to, or being a pig.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: suid, suidian, suilline, mammalian, animalian
adj
Similar to a pig.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: swinish, piggish, hoggish, swinelike, piglike, hoglike, boarish, boarlike
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; severely obese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
Synonyms: ample, beer-bellied, big, bulky, chubby, chunky, embonpoint, fat, flabby, fleshy, full-figured, fulsome, gorbellied, gorrel-bellied, heavy, heavyset, love-handled, meaty, overnourished, paunchy, pleasantly plump, plump, plus-size, portly, potbellied, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, Rubenesque, sonsy, swagbellied, thick, tubby, well-covered, well-padded, well-rounded, well-upholstered, wide
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A porcine animal: a pig, hog, boar, or related wild animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: suidian, suilline, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature
adjective
relating to or suggesting swine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective satellite
resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
repellently fat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: gross
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Old French [Term?]der. Middle French porcinder. Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos Proto-Italic *porkos Latin porcus Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnus Latin porcīnusder. Middle English porcine English porcine From Middle English porcine, partly from Middle French porcin (from Old French [Term?]) and partly from its etymon, Latin porcīnus, from porcus (“pig”).
Across languages
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