Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swinish"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swinish \Swin"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine;
hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.
``Swinish gluttony.'' --Milton. -- {Swin"ish*ly}, adv. --
{Swin"ish*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
swinish
adj 1: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or
appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the
loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish
husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish
multitude" [syn: {boorish}, {loutish}, {neanderthal},
{neandertal}, {oafish}]
2: 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}]
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