swine
Significat (English)
- A pig (the animal).
- A pig (the animal). The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
- A contemptible person (plural swines).
- (slang) A police officer; a "pig".
- (slang) Something difficult or awkward; a pain.
Synonyms
vile person
horrible person
horrid person
miniature pigs
Sus scrofa domistica
filthy swine
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/swaɪn/
Etimologia (English)
In summary
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”). By surface analysis, sow + -en. 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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sow
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- A female pig.
- A female bear, she-bear.
- A female guinea pig.
- A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
- A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
- (slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
- A sowbug.
- A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
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