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Definition: Swinish |
SwinishAdjective1. Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude". 2. Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "swinish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Synonyms: SwinishSynonyms: boorish (adj), hoggish (adj), loutish (adj), neandertal (adj), neanderthal (adj), oafish (adj), piggish (adj), piggy (adj), porcine (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry. |
Gluttony | Adjective: gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing;Verb: edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish. |
Intemperance | Brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Swinish |
| English words defined with "swinish": Boarish, boorish ♦ loutish ♦ Neandertal, neanderthal ♦ o.k., oafish. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Lord Byron | Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Swinish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Swinish" is used about 7 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "swinish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prej derri. (various references) | |
Arabic | خنزيري (porcine). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свински (hoggish, porcine, pork), просташки (blatant, caddish, jazz, jumped-up, loud, low-minded, oafish, ornery, philistine, raffish, rank, rough, rude, savage, tasteless, underbred, unrefined, vulgar), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
Czech | sviòský. (various references) | |
Finnish | sikamainen (beastly, bloody, dirty), sikahumala (beastly, bloody, dirty). (various references) | |
French | dégueulasse. (various references) | |
German | schweinisch (dirty, hoggish, hoggishly, pigging, piggish, piggishly). (various references) | |
Greek | γουρουνίσιοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חזירי (hoggish, piggish, porcine, porky). (various references) | |
Hungarian | trágár (bawdy, dirty, gross, impious, indecent, nasty, obscene, pornographic, ribald, scurrilous, smutty), disznó (dirty, hog, pig, swine). (various references) | |
Manx | mucoil (hoggish, piggish, porcine), mucagh (piggish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inishsway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, dirty, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, unclean, untidy, unwashed), sórdido (foul, mean, mucky, nasty, piggish, sordid, squalid), porco (boarish, dirty, grubby, hog, hoggish, obscene, pig, piggish, pork, swine, unwashed), imundo (filthy, foul, mucky, piggish, squalid, unclean), grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden). (various references) | |
Russian | свинский (hoggish, piggish, porcine). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svinjski (hoggish, piggish, porcine, pork). (various references) | |
Spanish | cochino (dirty, filthy, hoggish, moldy, mouldy, pig), brutal (bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, rough, ruffianly). (various references) | |
Swedish | snuskig (dirty, filthy, foul, grubby, nasty, smutty). (various references) | |
Thai | เหมือนหมู, หยาบคาย (caddish, disagreeable, ill-bred, indecency, indecent, mucky, neanderthal, ribald, robustious, rough, rude). (various references) | |
Turkish | kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), hayvan gibi (beastly, bestial, like an animal), domuz gibi (hoggish, piggish, piglike, porcine, strong and healty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | свинський (beastly, hoggish, piggish), грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, truculent, uncouth). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | như lợn; tham ăn tục uống; bẩn tưởi. (various references) | |
Welsh | mochynnaidd (piggish), mochaidd (hoggish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "swinish": swinishly, swinishness, swinishnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Swinish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: selinaish, shinyish, sixish, skipnish, swanwic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "swinish" (pronounced 'Swin"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-i-n-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: winish. | |
-2 letters: shins, sinhs, swish, whins. | |
-3 letters: hins, hisn, hiss, iwis, nisi, shin, sinh, sins, whin, wins, wish, wiss. | |
-4 letters: hin, his, ins, sin, sis, win, wis. | |
-5 letters: hi, in, is, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-i-n-s-s-w" | |
+1 letter: swainish, swishing. | |
+2 letters: swinishly, twinships. | |
+3 letters: swishingly, whistlings. | |
+4 letters: swinishness, weightiness, whisperings, widdershins, wimpishness, windshields, withershins. | |
+5 letters: scrimshawing, swainishness, wisenheimers. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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