swinish
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 7
/ˈswaɪnɪʃ/
Definition of swinish
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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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