ADJECTIVE | pert | porcine | relating to or suggesting swine |
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all | porcine, gross | repellently fat | |
all | porcine, hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish | resembling swine |
Meaning | relating to or suggesting swine. | |
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Example | "comparison between human and porcine pleasures" | |
Spanish | porcino | |
Nouns | swine | stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals |
Meaning | repellently fat. | |
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Example | "a bald porcine old man" | |
Synonym | gross | |
Broader | fat | Having an (over)abundance of flesh |
Spanish | porcino |
Meaning | resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy. | |
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Example | "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father" | |
Synonyms | hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish | |
Broader | gluttonous | Given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink |
Spanish | cerdo, cochino, marrano | |
Catalan | marrà, porc |
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