swine
Noun
- A domestic pig; a contemptible person.
- stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals
- A pig (the animal).
- A pig (the animal). The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
- The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
- A contemptible person (plural swine or swines).
- A police officer; a "pig".
- Something difficult or awkward; a pain.
- plural of sow
Examples
- He played SWINE for a double-word score, thinking of his opponent’s questionable tactics.
- That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.
Origin / Etymology
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”). By surface analysis, sow + -en.
Cognates
Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).
Scrabble Score: 8
swine: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordswine: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
swine: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
swine: valid Words With Friends Word