swine

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pig (the animal).
    — The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
  2. plural of sow archaic,form-of,plural
  3. A contemptible person (plural swine or swines). derogatory
  4. A police officer; a "pig". derogatory,slang
  5. Something difficult or awkward; a pain. derogatory,slang
    — That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.

词形变化

swine plural swines plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”).
Cognates
Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish svin, Faroese and Icelandic svín, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).
词源 2
From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”).
Cognates
Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish svin, Faroese and Icelandic svín, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).
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