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Porcine

adjective

Relating to or suggesting swine.

Repellently fat. Synonym: gross.

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

... are allowed to eat that bird on Fridays. He also says that the pigs wade out into the mud at low tide to root for clams; while the crows, following in their tracks, steal the coveted shell fish from under the very noses of the swine. Of the remarkably long nasal appendages of this peculiar porcine species he adds, "They do say that they'll root under a fence and steal ...

— Over the Border: Acadia • Eliza Chase

... on the thick bull neck seemed to swell, but there was no sign of recognition in the stolid jaw. Only the lower lip protruded as the man set his jaw, and the little, close-set, porcine eyes narrowed. ...

— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

... and simple enough. Fired by the immediate and instantly proverbial popularity of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, he hired, we may suppose, some ready hack of unclean hand to supply him with three doggrel sonnets on the same subject, noticeable only for their porcine quality of prurience: he procured by some means a rough copy or an incorrect transcript of two genuine and unpublished sonnets by Shakespeare, which with the acute instinct of a felonious tradesman he laid atop of his worthless wares ...

— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... when you were not." Narain bent to the ground in thanks, as his master turned on his heel. "Not that he minds being told that he is a pig, in the least," said Isaacs. "I would not call a Mussulman so, but you can insult these Hindoos so much worse in other ways that I think the porcine simile is quite merciful by comparison." He sat down again among the cushions, and putting off his slippers, curled himself ...

— Mr. Isaacs • F. Marion Crawford

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