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  1. adjective Of or resembling swine or a pig: "a bald porcine old man” (Vladimir Nabokov).

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  • From the depths of the gamut to the shrieky top again, -- a droning that has something of porcine or wild-boar character. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, by Richard A. Spears, xv + 585pp., —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
  • A newspaper article described the announcer at a Playboy Bunny of the Year Contest as a "porcine" (` piglike ') emcee. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3
  • Development of IgE antibodies to human (recombinant DNA), porcine, and bovine insulins in diabetic subjects. —  The Diabetes Blog
  • So many voices are not human; but more or less bovine, porcine, canine; and one's soul dies away in sorrow in the sound of them, and is reduced to a dialogue with the “Silences,” which is of a very abstruse nature! — —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French porcin, from Latin porcīnus, from porcus, pig; see porko- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French porcine = Spanish Portuguese Italian porcino, from Latin porcinus, of a hog, from porcus, hog: see pork.
 

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/ˈpɔrsɪn/
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