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Definition: Swine |
SwineNoun1. Stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "swine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Swine \Swine\, noun singular & plural [Old English swin, Anglo-Saxon sw[=i]n; akin to Old Flemmish & Old Saxon swin, Dutch zwijn, German schwein, Old High German sw[=i]n, Icelandic sv[=i]n, Swedish svin, Danish sviin, Gothic swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to English sow. See Sow, noun]. (references) |
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Bible | Swine (Heb. hazir), regarded as the most unclean and the most abhorred of all animals (Lev. 11:7; Isa. 65:4; 66:3, 17; Luke 15:15, 16). A herd of swine were drowned in the Sea of Galilee (Luke 8:32, 33). Spoken of figuratively in Matt. 7:6 (see Prov. 11:22). It is frequently mentioned as a wild animal, and is evidently the wild boar (Arab. khanzir), which is common among the marshes of the Jordan valley (Ps. 80:13). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | A family of nonruminant artiodactylous mammals consisting of the wild and the domestic swine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Swine Boar or brawn, the sire; sow, the dam; sucklings, the new-born pigs. A castrated boar-pig is called a hog or shot. Young pigs for the butcher are called porkers. A sow-pig after her first litter becomes a brood-sow, and her whole stock of pigs cast at a birth is called a litter or farrow of pigs. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Russian (styervo), Slovak (chuj). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The domestic pig is usually given the scientific name Sus scrofa, though some authors call it S. domesticus, reserving S. scrofa for the wild boar. It has been a domesticated animal for approximately 5,000 to 7,000 years. The animal is found across Europe, the Middle East and extends into Asia as far as Indonesia and Japan. The distinction between wild and domestic animals is slight, and domestic pigs have become feral in many parts of the world (for example, New Zealand); feral pigs can cause substantial environmental damage. The family Suidae also includes about 12 separate species of wild pig, most also classified in the genus Sus.
Pig
Larger sow with piglet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Suidae Genus: Sus species: scrofa (or domesticus) Binomial name '' Sus scrofa'' Sus scrofa has four subspecies, each occupying distinct geographical areas. They are Sus scrofa scrofa (western Africa, Europe), Sus scrofa ussuricus (northern Asia and Japan), Sus scrofa cristatus (Asia Minor, India), and Sus scrofa vittatus (Indonesia).
Many different words in English identify different types of pig:
Pigs (or swine) that are allowed to forage may be watched by swineherds. A litter of piglets typically contains between 10 and 12 animals. Meat from pigs is called pork in general and ham, bacon or bologna in some cases. Their trotters are often sold as the jelly-like dish of pig's feet. Hog jowls are a popular soul food. The American pig-raising industry calls pork a white meat, as opposed to beef; "white meat" (such as poultry) is often considered healthier than "red meat." Both Islam and Orthodox Judaism forbid the eating of pork in any form, considering the animal to be unclean: no form of pig meat can be kosher or halal.
- adult male pigs are called boars
- adult females are called sows
- juvenile animals are called piglets and farrows
- young pigs between 100-180 pounds are called shoats
- a gilt is an immature female pig
- a barrow is a castrated male pig
- hog is used as a synonym of pig in the United States; in its original sense it means a castrated boar.
- swine is a plural noun meaning pigs
While pigs are raised mostly for meat, their skin is used as a source of leather. Their bristly hairs are also traditionally used for brushes.
Pigs, like humans, are omnivores, making them easy to raise: on a small farm or in a large household they can be fed kitchen scraps as part or all of their diet.
Pigs are the only mammal not to have sweat glands.
Miscellaneous
The pig is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. Believers in Chinese astrology associate each animal with certain personality traits. See: Pig (Zodiac).Zhu Bajie is a famous monster pig in the Chinese novel Journey to the West.
Pigs are commonly associated with greed and with dirt; the latter probably comes from their habit of wallowing in mud.
See also
- hog lot
- List of fictional pigs
Photos of pigs and piglets
Larger piglets Larger more piglets
Larger physiologist with piglets Larger sow and five piglets
Larger piglet Larger pig litter Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pig."
Synonyms: SwineSynonyms: Hogs, Pigs. (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: old-world (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Horse. (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat. |
Inutility | Seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late);seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late); hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls before swine; (waste); carry coals to Newcastle; (redundancy); wash a blackamoor white; (impossible). |
Sensualist | Noun: Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of pleasure, carpet knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig, hog; votary of Epicurus, swine of Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus; free liver, hard liver; libertine; hedonist; tragalist. |
Waste | Waste its sweetness on the desert air ; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain; (useless); cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You're a swine. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) Eat my buddy Pumbaa here because he is a treat! Come on down and dine, on this tasty swine, all you have to do is get in line (The Lion King; writing credit: Irene Mecchi; Jonathan Roberts) You uncultured swine! (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton) Think of it - I hold out my hand and that hyena refuses to accept. Why, the cheap ball-pushing swine, he'll never get away with it I tell you, he'll never get away with it (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby) Maybe swine. (Hannah Lee; writing credit: MacKinlay Kantor; Alford Van Ronkel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Canada: Swine (1963) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Transmission electron micrograph of swine influenza virus. Credit: CDC. |  | Stored boxes of swine influenza vaccine. Credit: CDC. |
 | Lab technicians reading and checking serologies to determine presence of influenza A/NJ/8/76 (Swine Flu) and registering antibody rise to the swine influenza virus during vaccine testing trials. Credit: CDC. |  | Meat Inspection of swine. Credit: USDA. |
 | An illustration of German atrocities. German woman, with shaven head, who was forced to carry a sign which translates as: "I am the worst swine in the village; I had dealings with Poles. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Samuel Butler | For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She was a swine with the look of a tigress |
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Health | The parasite is especially common in rats and in swine that feed on uncooked garbage. (references) | |
These include sheep, goats, horses, swine, cattle, dogs, and cats. Transmission occurs by direct contact with contaminated soil and surface waters. (references) | ||
In 2000, cases of rabies in dogs and sheep/goats increased 2.7% and 11.1% respectively, whereas those in cats, cattle, horses and swine decreased 10.4%, 38.5% and 100.0% respectively compared with those reported in 1999. Rabies cases in cats continue to be more than twice as numerous as those in dogs or cattle. (references) | ||
Economic History | Dominican Rep | It is mainly used in feed formulations for poultry and swine. (references) |
Dominican Rep | Corn in the DR is used primarily for poultry and swine feed formulations. (references) | |
Vietnam | Several U.S. companies have already established a small market for swine genetics. (references) | |
Trade | Hong Kong | Hong Kong imposes quarantine requirements for certain pets and breeding swine depending on country of origin. (references) |
Lithuania | For meat imports, the State Veterinary Department provides border inspection controls for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), classical swine fever, salmonella, FMD etc. (references) | |
Philippines | All other food product imports do not have licensing requirements except where permits are required for commodities entering duty-free or are taking advantage of an in-quota tariff on items such as live swine, frozen pork, frozen chevon, frozen poultry, fresh/chilled potatoes, coffee beans, corn, coffee extract. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Swine" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 98.81% of the time. "Swine" is used about 252 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 98.81% | 249 | 18,850 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.19% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 252 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Thailand | Thai-Denmark Swine Breeder Public Co. Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "swine": African swine fever ♦ African Swine Fever Virus ♦ African Swine Fever-Like Viruses ♦ cast pearls before swine ♦ classical swine fever ♦ dirty swine ♦ East African swine fever ♦ Edema Disease of Swine ♦ filthy swine ♦ mysterious swine disease ♦ swine breeding ♦ swine brucellosis ♦ Swine Diseases ♦ swine dysentery ♦ swine erysipelas ♦ swine fever ♦ swine grass ♦ Swine Infertility and Respiratory Syndrome Virus ♦ swine influenza ♦ swine influenza virus ♦ swine influenzavirus ♦ swine oat ♦ swine plague ♦ swine pox ♦ swine rose ♦ swine thistle ♦ swine vesicular disease ♦ Vesicular Exanthema of Swine ♦ Vesicular Exanthema of Swine Virus. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "swine": swine-herd, swine-herds, Swine-pox. | |
Ending with "swine": hog-swine. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "swine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vark (hog, pig), swyn (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Albanian | derr (boar, pig). (various references) | |
Arabic | حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), خنزير (hog, pig, porker), شخص جدير بالإزدراء (buzzard, hound, stinkard, worm). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свиня (hog, pig, sow), свине, противно нещо, противен човек (prune, stink-pot, sweep, ugly customer). (various references) | |
Catalan | porc (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Chinese | 豕 (hog), 豬 (hog, pig), 豨 , 猪 (PIG, pig-a-back), 彘 . (various references) | |
Czech | svinì (bugger, rat, sow), vepř (hog, pig), prase (hog, pig), lotr (blackguard, miscreant, ruffian). (various references) | |
Danish | svin (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Dutch | varken (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Esperanto | porko (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Faeroese | svín (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Farsi | گرازادم پرخوریاحریص . (various references) | |
Finnish | sika (hog, pig, pork). (various references) | |
French | porc, cochon. (various references) | |
Frisian | swyn (hog, pig), baarch (hog, pig). (various references) | |
German | Schwein (bastard, heel, hog, pig, pork, razorback, yahoo). (various references) | |
Greek | γουρούνι (hog, oaf, pig, sow), χοιροειδές, χοίροσ (boar, hog, pig), Συίδες (Old World pigs, suidae). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חזיר (hog, pig, pork, sucker). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sertés (hog, pig), disznó (dirty, hog, pig, swinish). (various references) | |
Icelandic | svín (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Indonesian | membabi (a car suit, act blindly, rage), babi (hog, pig, pork). (various references) | |
Irish | muc (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Italian | porco (hog, pig, pork). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 豚に真 (cast pearls before swine, does not go well together). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たからのもちぐされ (pearls thrown before swine), ね"に"ば" (pearls before swine, really big waste of resources), ぶたにし"じゅ (cast pearls before swine, does not go well together). (various references) | |
Korean | 돼지 (hog, PIG, Pork). (various references) | |
Lombard | porscell (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Malay | babi (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Manx | muick, mucyn. (various references) | |
Norwegian | svin (hog, pig), gris (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Papiamen | porko (hog, pig), kochino (hog, pig), hochi (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inesway.(various references) | |
Polish | świnia (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Portuguese | porco (boarish, dirty, grubby, hog, hoggish, obscene, pig, piggish, pork, swinish, unwashed). (various references) | |
Romanian | porc (boar, grunter, hog, pig). (various references) | |
Russian | свинья (hog, pig, sow). (various references) | |
Scottish | muc (a pig, hog, pig, sow). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svinja (pig). (various references) | |
Spanish | cerdo (boar, hog, pig). (various references) | |
Sranan | agu (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Swahili | nguruwe (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Swedish | svin (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Tagalog | báboy (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Thai | สุกร. (various references) | |
Turkish | domuz (boar, grunter, hog, pig, porcine, pork). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | свиня (hog, pig, pork, sow), нахаба (bold face, jackanapes, pig, saucebox). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nấm truýp (swine-bread). (various references) | |
Welsh | mochyn (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Yucatec | k'eek'en (hog, pig). (various references) | |
Zulu | ingulube (hog, pig). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | hyaina. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | iessui, maialis, porcus, soem, sue, sui, Suidae, suillam, suillas, suillum, suis, suisque, sus, susanna, suum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | hû. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hn de makran ap autwn agelh coirwn pollwn boskomenh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Erat autem non longe ab illis grex porcorum multorum pascens |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þær wæs soðlice un-feor an swynaheord manegre manne læswiende. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And not fer fro hem was a flocke of many swyne lesewynge. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And ther was a good waye of fro them a greate heerd of swyne fedinge. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And there was a good way off from them a herd of many swine, feeding. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now there was, some distance away, a great herd of pigs taking their food. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 30 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa usa ka gilay-on gikan kanila, didtoy usa ka panon sa daghang mga baboy nga nanag-ungad. |
| Chinese | 離 他 們 很 、 有 一 大 群 豬 喫 食 。 |
| Croatian | A podalje od njih paslo je veliko krdo svinja. |
| Danish | Men der var langt fra dem en stor Hjord Svin, som græssede. |
| Dutch | En verre van hen was een kudde veler zwijnen, weidende. |
| Finnish | Ja etäällä heistä kävi suuri sikalauma laitumella. |
| French | Il y avait loin d`eux un grand troupeau de pourceaux qui paissaient. |
| German | Es war aber ferne von ihnen ein große Herde Säue auf der Weide. |
| Haitian Creole | Toupre kote yo te ye a, te gen yon bann kochon ki t'ap chache manje pou yo manje. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tidak jauh dari situ, ada banyak sekali babi sedang mencari makan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tiada berapa jauh daripada mereka itu adalah sekawan babi yang banyak sedang mencari makan. |
| Italian | A qualche distanza da loro c'era una numerosa mandria di porci a pascolare; |
| Manx Gaelic | As tammylt voue va beiyhaghey griagh mooar dy vuckyn. |
| Maori | Na tera tetahi kahui poaka i tawhiti atu i a ratou e kai ana, he tini. |
| Norwegian | Men et langt stykke fra dem gikk en stor svinehjord og beitet; |
| Portuguese | Ora, a alguma distância deles, andava pastando uma grande manada de porcos. |
| Rumanian | Departe de ei era o turmq mare de porci, cari pqwteau. |
| Russian | ч"БМЙ ЦЕ ПФ ОЙИ БУМПУШ 'ПМШЫПЕ УФБ"П УЧЙОЕК. |
| Shuar | Nui arant kuchi Untsurí shushunmak yujaarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Lejos de ellos estaba paciendo un gran hato de cerdos, |
| Swahili | Karibu na mahali hapo kulikuwa na nguruwe wengi wakichungwa. |
| Swedish | Nu gick där långt ifrån dem en stor svinhjord i bet. |
| Uma | Uma molaa ngkai ree, ria wori' wawu mojume. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "swine": swineherd, swineherds, swinepox, swinepoxes. (additional references) | |
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"Swine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awine, gwine, Gwyne, saine, Sawhney, Sgine, sinqe, siwen, smine, stine, svine, Swaine, swance, swane, swaned, swanee, swange, swannee, sween, swide, swife, swin, swince, swind, swined, swiner, swines, Swinfen, swingee, Swinney, swiny, swire, swite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "swine" (pronounced swī"n) |
| 3 | -w ī" n | entwine, intertwine, twine, whine, wine. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sinew, wines. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-s-w" | |
-1 letter: news, sewn, sine, wens, wine, wins, wise. | |
-2 letters: ens, ins, new, sei, sen, sew, sin, wen, win, wis. | |
-3 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, si, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-s-w" | |
+1 letter: dwines, newies, newish, newsie, nowise, rewins, sewing, sinews, sinewy, swinge, twines, unwise, whines, widens, winces, winoes, winzes, wisent, wizens. | |
+2 letters: anywise, eiswein, endwise, entwist, enwinds, fanwise, inswept, lawines, manwise, misknew, newbies, newsier, newsies, rewinds, sewings, shewing, sinewed, skewing, slewing, snowier, spewing, stewing, sunwise, swidden, swindle, swinged, swinger, swinges, swingle, swinked, swinney, tawnies, townies, twiners, twinges, twinset, unwiser, wahines, waniest, weenies, weiners, welkins, wennish, westing, whiners, whinges, whitens, wieners, wienies, wigeons, wincers, winceys, winches, winders, windles, winesop, wingers, winiest, winkers, winkles, winless, winners, winsome, winters, wintles, wisents, witness, witneys, wiverns, wizzens. | |
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