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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. relating to or suggesting swine;
- Example: "comparison between human and porcine pleasures"

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

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

porcine adj 1: relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures" 2: repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [syn: gross, porcine] 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, porcine, swinish]