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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. relating to or suggesting swine;
- Example: "comparison between human and porcine pleasures"

2. repellently fat;
- Example: "a bald porcine old man"
[syn: gross, porcine]

3. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy;
- Example: "piggish table manners"
- Example: "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"
- Example: "swinish slavering over food"
[syn: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

porcine
    adj 1: relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between
           human and porcine pleasures"
    2: repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [syn: gross,
       porcine]
    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, porcine, swinish]