hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish
(adjective) 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”
boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
swinish (comparative more swinish, superlative most swinish)
Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
Source: Wiktionary
Swin"ish, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot. "Swinish gluttony." Milton.
– Swin"ish*ly, adv.
– Swin"ish*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 January 2025
(noun) powerful and effective language; “his eloquence attracted a large congregation”; “fluency in spoken and written English is essential”; “his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.