swinish

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈswaɪnɪʃ/

Definition of swinish

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
    “Near-synonyms: boarish, boarlike”
    “[…]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…]”
    “Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.”

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Etymology

From Middle English swinisse, swynys, swynyse; equivalent to swine + -ish.

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