swine

Meaning

1. A pig (the animal).
2. A pig (the animal). The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
3. A contemptible person (plural swines).
4. (slang) A police officer; a "pig".
5. (slang) Something difficult or awkward; a pain.

Synonyms

pig

🐖

hog

scoundrel

rascal

boar

🐗

pork

pigs

creep

rogue

sow

beast

rotter

porker

rat

🐀

rotten

roughneck

scallywag

scum

sod

villain

🦹‍♂️

wretch

vile person

horrible person

horrid person

miniature pigs

Sus scrofa domistica

animal

🐾

filthy swine

bandit

bastard

bounder

brute

cowhide

good-for-nothing

grunter

hogs

hoodlum

mean

oaf

Pronounced as (IPA)

/swaɪn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: swyn

Inherited from Old English: swīn

Cognate with Western Frisian: swyn

Cognate with Low German: Swien

Cognate with Dutch: zwijn

Cognate with German: Schwein

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Swedish: svin

Cognate with Polish: świnia

Cognate with Russian: свинья́

Cognate with Latin: sūinus

Cognate with Latin: sūs

Cognate with Ancient Greek: ὗς

Cognate with Persian: خوک

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).