swine

/swaɪn/

/swaɪn/

Other forms: swines

A swine is a pig or a big ol’ nasty hog. Swine have short legs, thick bodies, and they eat just about anything. If someone acts like a pig, call him a swine.

Although it’s old fashioned, the word swine comes in handy if you need another word for hog, like if you’re really into writing poems about pigs. Swine — which is also the plural form, like fish — are common farm animals. Some are eaten as bacon, some are kept as pets. Swine themselves are omnivorous, so they'll eat meat, vegetables, or, well, garbage.

Definitions of swine

1. noun

   stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals
   types:

   Sus scrofa, grunter, hog, pig, squealer

   domestic swine

   boar

   an uncastrated male hog

   sow

   an adult female hog

   razorback, razorback hog, razorbacked hog

   a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States

   Sus scrofa, boar, wild boar

   Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States

   Babyrousa Babyrussa, babiroussa, babirusa, babirussa

   Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth

   warthog

   African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks

   porker

   a pig fattened to provide meat

   type of:

   artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate

   placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot