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porcine

Adjective

por=cine

WORDNET DICTIONARY

porcine(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures"

porcine(s = adj.all) gross - repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man"
porcine(s = adj.all) hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish - 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"

porcine, a. [L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See Pork.].

Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]

porcine, adj. of or like pigs.

Etymology

F porcin or f. L porcinus f. porcus pig

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