About The Word Porcine
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Porcine
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What's The Definition Of Porcine?
[adj] 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"
[adj] repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [adj] relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures" Synonyms | Synonyms for Porcine: fat | gluttonous | gross | hoggish | piggish | piggy | swinish Related Terms | Find terms related to Porcine: See Also | Porcine In Webster's Dictionary \Por"cine\, a. [L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See
{Pork}.]
Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog.
``Porcine cheeks.'' --G. Eliot.
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