porcine
- adjective
- /ˈpɔːrsaɪn/
- Offensive
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porcino (ofensivo)
- In what style would you like it to be drawn?" Martin made a porcine interrogative sound.
Examples
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What a pustulent, vile, porcine waste of skin this "man"
Blog text (5) -
Tell them that your child is an ovolacto porcine bovine pescetarian.
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They're almost porcine.
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She's porcine.
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The comedian used his porcine features to create a humorous character on stage.
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Her porcine mannerisms made it hard to take her seriously at the meeting.
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Despite his porcine appearance, he was surprisingly agile on the dance floor.
Synonyms
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6.9
A person who eats too much and acts greedy and rude
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9.1
A person who takes more than others, especially food, in a greedy, rude way
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9.9
Very rude and greedy in behavior, like a pig
Having messy, greedy, or rude manners
Greedy and messy while eating, showing bad manners
Having a strong, dirty smell or a muddy, messy appearance
Compounds
- Offensive
A loud, deep sound people make when something is funny that sounds like a pig snort
How Pig-Like
Surface Forms
Morphology
porcine = pork (semi-transparent) = porc + ine
Formally derived from the Latin combining form porc- plus the adjective-forming suffix -ine; learners may notice the relation to 'pork' by form but not immediately connect it to the common word 'pig'.
Etymology
Porcine comes from the Latin porcus, which means 'pig', and you can see the same root in pork, the meat from pigs. So calling someone porcine is to say they are 'like a pig' in looks or behavior, for example very fat or greedy.