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swine 音標拼音: [sw'ɑɪn] n. 豬,卑鄙的家伙,貪心 豬,卑鄙的傢夥,貪心 swine n 1: stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals Swine \Swine\, n. sing. & pl. [OE. swin, AS. sw[imac]n; akin to OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. sw[imac]n, Icel. sv[imac]n, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See {Sow}, n.] (Zool.) Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See {Hog}. "A great herd of swine." --Mark v. 11. [1913 Webster] {Swine grass} (Bot.), knotgrass ({Polygonum aviculare}); -- so called because eaten by swine. {Swine oat} (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine. {Swine's cress} (Bot.), a species of cress of the genus {Senebiera} ({Senebiera Coronopus}). {Swine's head}, a dolt; a blockhead. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Swine thistle} (Bot.), the sow thistle. [1913 Webster] 66 Moby Thesaurus words for "swine": Berkshire, Cyrenaic, Duroc, Duroc-Jersey, Heliogabalus, Hereford, Sardanapalus, Wessex saddleback, Yorkshire, animal, barrow, beast, boar, bon vivant, carpet knight, cur, dog, drab, epicure, epicurean, frump, gilt, gourmand, gourmet, hedonist, hog, hound, hyena, insect, large white, litterbug, mongrel, pig, piggy, piglet, pigling, pleasure-seeker, polecat, porker, razorback, reptile, schlep, schlump, sensualist, sensuist, serpent, shoat, skunk, slattern, slob, sloppy Joe, sloven, slut, snake, sow, suckling pig, sybarite, trollop, tusker, varmint, vermin, viper, voluptuary, whelp, wild boar, worm Swine (Heb. hazir), regarded as the most unclean and the most abhorred of all animals (Lev. 11:7; Isa. 65:4; 66:3, 17; Luke 15:15, 16). A herd of swine were drowned in the Sea of Galilee (Luke 8:32, 33). Spoken of figuratively in Matt. 7:6 (see Prov. 11:22). It is frequently mentioned as a wild animal, and is evidently the wild boar (Arab. khanzir), which is common among the marshes of the Jordan valley (Ps. 80:13). |
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