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porcine |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Porcine \Por"cine\, a. [L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See {Pork}.] Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. ``Porcine cheeks.'' --G. Eliot. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: porcine adj 1: relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures" 2: repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [syn: {gross}] 3: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food" [syn: {hoggish}, {piggish}, {piggy}, {swinish}]
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