Meaning & use
swine
A pig, or, used insultingly, a contemptible or thoroughly unpleasant person.
See it in a sentence
The farmer kept several swine in a large, muddy pen behind the barn.
She called her ex-boyfriend a swine after learning how he had treated his coworkers.
A note on using this word
Swine is the same in both singular and plural form and sounds more formal or old-fashioned than pig in everyday farming contexts.
Words with a similar meaning
pighog
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