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From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”).

Cognates

Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish svin, Faroese and Icelandic svín, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).

• IPA(key): /swaɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

swine (plural **swine or swines)

1. (plural swine) A pig (the animal).
   The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
2. (derogatory) A contemptible person (plural swine or swines).
3. (slang, derogatory) A police officer; a "pig".
4. (slang, derogatory) Something difficult or awkward; a pain.
   That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.

In its literal sense, swine is often used, like cattle, as an uncountable plurale tantum: 200 head of swine.

• African swine fever virus
• Blind Swine Mate
• cast pearls before swine
• Gadarene swine
• giant thorny-headed worm of swine
• go the entire swine
• mereswine
• microswine
• pearls before swine
• seaswine, sea swine, sea-swine
• swine-bread
• swinebread
• swinecote
• swine fever
• swineflesh
• swine flesh
• swine-flesh
• swine flu
• swineherd
• swineherder
• swineherding
• swinehood
• swinehound
• swine-hound
• swine influenza
• swinelike
• swineling
• swineman
• swinemeat
• swinepox
• swinery
• swinestone
• swinesty
• swineyard
• swinish
• throw pearls before swine

contemptible person

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 卑賤的人 / 卑贱的人 (zh) (bēijiàn de rén)

• Czech: svině (cs) f

• Danish: svin (da) n

• Dutch: smeerlap (nl) m

• Finnish: sika (fi)

• French: porc (fr) m, vermine (fr) f, (man) salaud (fr) m, (woman) garce (fr) f

• German: Schwein (de) n

• Hebrew: חזיר (he) m

• Hungarian: disznó (hu)

• Icelandic: svín (is) n

• Indonesian: bajingan (id), bangsat (id)

• Italian: porco (it) m

• Japanese: 下劣な人 (ja) (げれつなひと, geretsu na hito)

• Korean: 돼지 (ko) (dwaeji)

• Middle English: swyn

• Polish: świnia (pl) f

• Portuguese: canalha (pt) m or f

• Russian: свинья́ (ru) f (svinʹjá) , сви́нтус (ru) m (svíntus)

• Spanish: cerdo (es), canalla (es)

• Swedish: svin (sv) n

• Turkish:
  Ottoman Turkish: طوكوز (doñuz), خنزیر (hınzır)

• Appendix:English collective nouns

swine

1. (archaic) plural of sow

• Wenis, Wiens, Wines, sewin, sinew, swein, we'ins, wenis, wines, wisen

swine

1. alternative form of swyn

• IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈs̠wiːnə/

swīne n

1. dative singular of swīn
2. genitive plural of swīn

• IPA(key): /ˈswiː.ne/
• Rhymes: -iː.ne

swīne n

1. dative singular of swīn