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Porcine

Porcine \Por"cine\, a. [L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See Pork.] Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. ``Porcine cheeks.''
--G. Eliot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
porcine

early 15c., "pertaining to swine; swinish," from Old French porcin or directly from Latin porcinus "of a hog," from porcus "hog, pig" (see pork (n.)).

Wiktionary
porcine

a. 1 Of, or pertaining to, the pig. 2 Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.

WordNet
porcine
  1. adj. relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures"

  2. repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [syn: gross]

  3. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food" [syn: hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish]

Usage examples of "porcine".

Most stickies simply had a gaping buccal orifice, fringed with ragged porcine hairs, that dribbled wetly.

Pitts, the Pig Man, aka the Porcine One, aka John Pendleton Kennedy, dealer in fine porcelain, made the most fitting little squeal, threw his trash can in the street, and began trotting away as fast as his little legs would carry him.

Strapped into a chair, the official looked an habitually sad type: a sallow, slightly porcine individual, drably dressed.

One was a British major, and he was indeed hoglike of jaw and snout and gut, with porcine bristles on his moist fat lip.

I am persuaded that a too exclusively porcine diet gives a bristly character to the beard and hair, which is borrowed from the animal whose tissues these stiffbearded compatriots of ours have too largely assimilated.

Spreading his dan, which in the light night breeze were barely adequate to carry his porcine body up the iceramp, the captain chivaned his way to the helm-deck.

Her eyebrows were plucked flat, canopying small, olive drab, porcine eyes rimmed with red.

The second was a burly man in civilian dress whose porcine eyes had that nervous look of superficial intelligence thinned by materialistic insensitivity one sees in politicians, film producers, and automobile salesmen.

They mostly had very prominent jaws and small noses, more like porcine snouts, a double row of snaggle teeth, with serrated, rear-facing points, tiny eyes with vertically split pupils and ridges of protective bone over them, and their ears were set flat against the sides of their narrow skulls.

Barnett chomped into a piece of hot chicken with such porcine vigor that the breastbone cracked in his mouth.

Sharpe saw the jug ears, the porcine face, then he stared down at the green scum on the water so that Sir Henry would not notice him.

Apply yourselves, above all, to the amelioration of the soil, to good manures, to the development of the equine, bovine, ovine, and porcine races.

On the port side there was even a pigpen holding about thirty of the tiny rabbit-eared porcines.

Given every benefit of the doubt, viewed through the rosiest of rose-colored lenses, they were nonetheless swine, three little pigs who exhibited all the worst porcine traits and none of the good ones.

By the second day the most porcine of the villagers could boast of shrunken waistlines.