The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Human respiratory physiology is more like that of swines than felines.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025
Another manager on the brink is Quique Sànchez Flores, reportedly set to be sacked by the ungrateful swines at Watford, with a first top-ten finish in 30 years still on the table.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2016
Wherefore no body tooke heede thereto, vntil such time as the Moores perceiuing that many followed them in superstition, and that the Loutea fauoured them, they began to forbid wholy the eating of swines flesh.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard
But 'e says, "None of yer jabber, ye swines; 'elp me inter my bunk, and two of yer bring me a 'ot linseed poultice for my chest."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 by Various
This person professes himself to be of the Mahometan faith, and will not permit swines flesh to be eaten in his dominions.
