Noun: swineherd
| Singular | swineherd |
| Plural | swineherds |
Sample Sentences
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But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers? [1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13:]
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Engels made no secret of his contempt for the Balkan peoples: the Bulgarians were a race of swineherds who would do best to keep quiet under Turkish rule pending the European revolution. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 89:]
Nouns inflected like swineherd
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English swynherde, from Old English swīnhierde. Cognate with German Schweinehirt. See: Middle English Nouns '
swynherde', Old English Nouns '
swīnhierde', German Nouns '
Schweinehirt'.