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    Disgusting, rude, greedy, or thoroughly nasty — the way you would describe a person's behaviour if you wanted to compare them to a pig. "A swine" is an old word for a pig, and in English, calling someone a pig has long meant they are greedy, dirty, or cruel. "Swinish" is the adjective for that. So "swinish manners" means eating and behaving in a way that turns people's stomachs. "A swinish thing to do" means a mean, low, selfish act. It can also stretch to mean simply awful or miserable — "swinish weather", "a swinish week" — where no pig is really in mind any more, just the feeling of something horrible. This is a literary, old-fashioned word. You will meet it in novels and in angry writing; almost nobody says it in everyday conversation now. When it is used today it sounds either very British or deliberately dramatic. It is a strong insult, not a gentle one — softer than a swear word, but harder than "rude".

    豬狗不如的、下流的;也指(天氣、日子)糟透了。文學、書面用語,現代口語幾乎不說。罵人的話,語氣不輕。

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組成swine (an old word for pig) + -ish ("having the character of"). From Middle English swinisse. The -ish here is the same one as in childish or foolish: it turns a thing into a way of being like that thing.

同家族的字

  • swinethe pig it is built on; still used as an insult
  • childishsame -ish, meaning "behaving like"
  • foolishsame -ish

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

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swinishadj/ˈswaɪnɪʃ/

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    Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.

    • Near-synonyms: boarish, boarlike
    • […]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…]

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