Noun: swine
| Singular | swine |
| Plural | swine; swines |
Sample Sentences
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The Zimmermann farm raises swine for their meat.
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Nah, I ain't Jewish. I just don't dig on swine, that's all. [1994, Quentin Tarantino et al., Pulp Fiction:]
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The Book says don't eat no swine.
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Thousands of workers and students screaming "Get out of town, you Nazi swine!" stormed a police barricade here today in an attempt to silence Adolf von Thadden, head of the right-wing National Democratic party. [1969 September 21, "Protesters Mob German Rightist...", New York Times, p. 20]
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Their captain's a swine, an evil bastard. Name of Cavendish. [1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders:]
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Don't cast pearls before swine.
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Keep your mouths shut. Don't tell the swine anything.
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That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.
Nouns inflected like swine
seiyuu,
sensei,
senryu,
whaanau,
xianbing,
samlor,
salumi,
salmon,
sika deer,
shrimp,
shumai,
eastern moa,
Guarani-Kaiowá,
northern shrimp,
izakaya,
pūkeko,
autopaizuri,
yukata,
yueqin,
panzerotti, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”).
2. * In modern use, especially as a term of abuse, frequently a calque of German Schwein or its derivatives.
3. * In reference to wolffish, a clipping of swinefish.
4. Cognates
5. Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish svin, Faroese and Icelandic svín, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk). See: Middle English Nouns '
swyn', German Nouns '
Schwein', Dutch Nouns '
zwijn', German Nouns '
Schwein', Polish Nouns '
świnia', Latin Nouns '
sūinus', Latin Nouns '
sūs', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὗς'.
Verbs referencing "swine"
German Nouns
Schwein, Latin Nouns
sus, Ancient Greek Nouns
ὗς, Bulgarian Nouns
свиня, Russian Nouns
гиена, Russian Nouns
свинья, Latvian Nouns
sivēns.