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発音

• IPA: /swaɪn/
• 韻: -aɪn

名詞

swine (plural swine or swines)

1. A pig, an animal of family Suidae, especially in agricultural contexts.

   The Zimmermann farm raises swine for their meat.

2. Pig, pork, the meat of pigs.
   • 1994, Quentin Tarantino & al., Pulp Fiction:

     Nah, I ain't Jewish. I just don't dig on swine, that's all.

   The Book says don't eat no swine.

3. (figurative, derogatory) A "pig", variously
   1. A contemptible person, particularly one imbued with negative piglike characteristics, a greedy, lazy, dirty, and/or lecherous person.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:jerk

      • 1969 September 21, "Protesters Mob German Rightist...", New York Times, p. 20:

        Thousands of workers and students screaming "Get out of town, you Nazi swine!" stormed a police barricade here today in an attempt to silence Adolf von Thadden, head of the right-wing National Democratic party.

      • 1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz & al., "Dead Man's Eleven", Midsomer Murders:

        Their captain's a swine, an evil bastard. Name of Cavendish.

      Don't cast pearls before swine.

   2. (slang, uncommon) A police officer.

      Keep your mouths shut. Don't tell the swine anything.

   3. (slang) A pain, any thing or task that is difficult, annoying, or unpleasant.

      That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.

4. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of wolffish.

使用する際の注意点

Swine is often used, like cattle, as an uncountable plurale tantum: 200 head of swine.

派生語

参考

• Appendix:English collective nouns

名詞

swine

1. (archaic) plural of sow

アナグラム

• Wenis, Wiens, Wines, sewin, sinew, swein, we'ins, wenis, wines, wisen

名詞

swīne n

1. dative singular of swīn