Swine

  • 21swine — See: cast pearls before swine or cast one s pearls before swine …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 22swine — noun (C) 1 plural swine or swines informal someone who behaves very unpleasantly: Leave her alone you filthy swine! 2 old use a pig …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 23swine — see do not throw pearls to swine on Saint Thomas the Divine kill all turkeys, geese, and swine …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 24swine — n. (pl. same) 1 formal or US a pig. 2 colloq. (pl. swine or swines) a a term of contempt or disgust for a person. b a very unpleasant or difficult thing. Phrases and idioms: swine fever an intestinal virus disease of pigs. Derivatives: swinish… …

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  • 25SWINE — S.W.I.N.E. S.W.I.N.E. Éditeur FishTank Studios Développeur StormRegion Date de sortie 7 décembre 2001 (France) 19 novembre 2001 (États Unis) Licence gratuiciel Version 1.9 …

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  • 26Swine —    (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 …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 27Swine — This ancient surname is of Old Scandinavian origin, and derives from the Old Norse male given name Sveinn , Middle English Swein , boy (servant), attendant, used also of a swineherd or young rustic. The surname has the rare distinction of being… …

    Surnames reference

  • 28swine — [OE] Swine is the ancestral English term for the ‘pig’, and it remained the main word until pig began to take over from it in the early modern English period. It came from a prehistoric Germanic *swīnam, which also produced German schwein, Dutch… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 29swine — [swaɪn] noun [C] 1) informal an extremely unpleasant man 2) (plural swine) an old word meaning a ‘pig …

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  • 30swine — [[t]swaɪn[/t]] n. pl. swine 1) mam any stout artiodactyl mammal of the Old World family Suidae, having a disklike snout and a thick hide usu. sparsely covered with coarse hair Compare hog pig wild boar 2) mam the domestic hog Sus scrofa[/ex] 3) a …

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