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Definition of Swinish
1. Adjective. Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance. "Aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
Similar to: Unrefined
Derivative terms: Boorishness
2. Adjective. Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy. "Swinish slavering over food"
Similar to: Gluttonous
Derivative terms: Hoggishness, Piggishness, Pig, Piggy
Definition of Swinish
1. a. Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.
Definition of Swinish
1. Adjective. Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swinish
1. resembling or befitting swine [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swinish
Literary usage of Swinish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anecdote Lives of Wits and Humourists by John Timbs (1872)
""CATECHISM FOR THE swinish MULTITUDE." It was Buike who applied the term " swinish
Multitude" to the common people; and Porson is generally understood to ..."
2. The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of by John Selby Watson (1861)
"... of the swinish Multitude. Of this composition some extracts are given by Beloe
in the " Sexagenarian,"* and have been reprinted in the Facéties ..."
3. Biographia Hibernica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland by Richard Ryan (1821)
"... it being a series of pious meditations perpetually interrupted with records
of too much whiskey, piggish or swinish eating, and ill temper. ..."
4. The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of by John Selby Watson (1861)
"The origin of it was the term " swinish Multitude," applied by Burke to the common
people, in his " Reflections on the French Revolution. ..."
5. Anecdote Lives of Wits and Humourists by John Timbs (1872)
""CATECHISM FOR THE swinish MULTITUDE." It was Buike who applied the term " swinish
Multitude" to the common people; and Porson is generally understood to ..."
6. The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of by John Selby Watson (1861)
"... of the swinish Multitude. Of this composition some extracts are given by Beloe
in the " Sexagenarian,"* and have been reprinted in the Facéties ..."
7. Biographia Hibernica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland by Richard Ryan (1821)
"... it being a series of pious meditations perpetually interrupted with records
of too much whiskey, piggish or swinish eating, and ill temper. ..."
8. The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of by John Selby Watson (1861)
"The origin of it was the term " swinish Multitude," applied by Burke to the common
people, in his " Reflections on the French Revolution. ..."
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