porcine

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It's the same Jeopardy category -- porcine figures of speech -- but Republican outrage has been spurred by the generally unfavorable connotations of the word pig.

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

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  • "And I'm porcine," she said, and she removed her face in one neat piece to show a round little pig snout and a pink rosebud mouth underneath it. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 01 - January 2000
  • Bandar contrived as intelligent a face as his porcine features would allow. —  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2005
  • 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!—Well, whether you write to me or not, I reserve to myself the privilege of writing to you, so long as we both continue in this world! —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
  • Drug Limpbaugh, the three times divorced, closet homosexual, porcine, racist, uneducated college dropout, draft dodging, an-al cyst sporting coward and couch potato chicken hawk drug addict is the defacto brains and test - icles of the republican party. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Pathetic when a moron republican tool follows a drug addicted closet homosexual divorce three times, porcine, lying, slobbering, racist, fired from every job he ever had, uneducated college dropout, draft dodging, chicken hawk coward, who earns 40 million a year, despite sitting on a bleeding an-al cyst from receptive an'al sex, paid to him by a right wing christian fundamentalist who owns a empire of radio and tv stations. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
 

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Etymologies (2)

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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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