porcine

[pawr-sahyn, -sin]

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adjective

of or relating to swine.
resembling swine; hoggish; piggish.

Origin of porcine

1650–60; < Latin porcīnus; see pork, -ine¹

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Related Words for porcine

rapacious, hoggish, piggish

Examples from the Web for porcine

Contemporary Examples of porcine

I actually do think Chris Christine is too porcine to be elected president.
The Christie Girth
Michael Tomasky
December 14, 2012

Historical Examples of porcine

Demming closed his eyes in his porcine manner and grunted, "Tell him."
Medal of Honor
Dallas McCord Reynolds
Arrived at the place, he observed that numbers of his porcine family were there before him.
The Hot Swamp
R.M. Ballantyne
Every house here had a colony of the porcine family in its yard.
Kensington, Notting Hill, and Paddington
An Old Inhabitant
Unworthiness doesn't, I hope, consign us to the porcine category.
Tante
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
On his return Greybrush found the passage littered with moss and leaves, while porcine snoring resounded throughout the earth.
Lives of the Fur Folk
M. D. Haviland

British Dictionary definitions for porcine

porcine

adjective

of, connected with, or characteristic of pigs

Word Origin for porcine

C17: from Latin porcīnus, from porcus pig

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Word Origin and History for porcine

adj.

early 15c., "pertaining to swine; swinish," from Old French porcin or directly from Latin porcinus "of a hog," from porcus "hog, pig" (see pork (n.)).

porcine in Science

porcine

[pôr′sīn′]

Relating to or resembling pigs.