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Swinish vs Porcine - What's the difference?

swinish | porcine |

As adjectives the difference between swinish and porcine

is that swinish is like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased while porcine is of, or pertaining to, the pig.

swinish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.27:
  • *:Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.
  • porcine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or pertaining to, the pig.
  • Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.
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