SWINISH

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


Etymology

Adjective

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



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