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Porcine

adjective
1.
Relating to or suggesting swine.
2.
Repellently fat.  Synonym: gross.
3.
Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy.  Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish.  "The piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father" , "Swinish slavering over food"





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"Porcine" Quotes from Famous Books



... from opposite sides of a barbed wire fence. Yet Isinglass retained the most complete mastery of his ferocious-looking protege, and beneath his skilful massage Hyldebrand would throw himself upon the ground and guggle in a porcine ecstacy. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug 15, 1917 • Various
... between the existing forms of the odd-toed group of ungulates (of which horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs, are the principal representatives) are most bridged over by palaeontology, and somewhat the same may be said of the even-toed group, to which the ruminants and the porcine genus belong. "Moreover, the lines of both groups to a certain extent approximate, but, within the limits of our knowledge, they do not meet. . - . Was the order according to which the introduction ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray


Words linked to "Porcine" :   piggish, swine, swinish, piggy, hoggish, fat, gluttonous, gross


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