swine
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
Definition of swine
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A pig (the animal).
“The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.”
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noun
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A pig (the animal).
“The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.”
- (derogatory)A contemptible person (plural swine or swines).
- (derogatory, slang)A police officer; a "pig".
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(derogatory, slang)Something difficult or awkward; a pain.
“That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.”
- (archaic, form-of, plural)plural of sow
name
- A small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1335).
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Etymology
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”). Cognates Related to West Frisian swyn,…
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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”). 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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