swinish
English
Etymology
From swine + -ish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswaɪnɪʃ/
- Hyphenation: swin‧ish
Adjective
swinish (comparative more swinish, superlative most swinish)
- Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, OCLC 760858814, [Act I, scene iv]:
- […] They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute […]
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.27:
- Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.
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Translations
like a pig, resembling a swine
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