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PORCINE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
Example:
swinish slavering over food
Synonyms:
hoggish; piggish; piggy; porcine; swinish
Classified under:
Similar:
gluttonous (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Repellently fat
Example:
a bald porcine old man
Synonyms:
gross; porcine
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Similar:
fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to or suggesting swine
Example:
comparison between human and porcine pleasures
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)
