swinishadj.

Brit.

/ˈswʌɪnɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈswaɪnɪʃ/

Forms: see swine n. and -ish suffix¹; also 1600s 1800s– swineish.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: swine n., -ish suffix¹.

Etymology: < swine n. + -ish suffix¹. Compare earlier swinely adj.Compare German schweinisch of or relating to pigs (15th cent.), (now usually) filthy, dirty, showing characteristics traditionally associated with pigs (18th cent.), Swedish †svinesk like a pig (1559; rare). Specific forms. The Middle English form swynys (see quot. a1475 at sense 1b) could alternatively be interpreted as showing the genitive of swine n.

a. Of a person or group: having or displaying one or more of the negative characteristics traditionally associated with pigs; esp. greedy, dirty, lazy; coarse, degraded, or uncivilized.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > animal nature in man > swinish

swinelyeOE

swinisha1200

hoggishc1475

porkish1545

hogling1650

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 37 [They] ben icleped swinisse men and on hem wuneð þe deuel.

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 25 The Lorde B. and your Antichristian swinish rable.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D4 I loue the quicke witted Italians,..because they mortally detest this surley swinish Generation.

1606 S. Gardiner Bk. Angling 22 Drunkards, swinish Epicures, heretiques.

1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 212 Then every Piglin she commends, And likens them to all their swinish Friends.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 117 Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned IV. xxi. 330 The reeking, gaping, swinish crowd.

1968 H. S. Thompson Let. 24 Sept. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 128 You and your swinish, hypocritical ilk.

2018 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 2 Sept. 12 Too many big dinners are being consumed, by the swinish Eurocrats.

b. Of an action, trait, etc.: coarse, debased, uncivilized, or otherwise thought characteristic of or befitting a pig.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > animal nature in man > swinish > of actions

swinisha1475

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 3718 He, in hys swynys lawe, Off hys rudnesse bestyal, Ne kan no ferther se at al Toward the hevene.

?1563 Veron (title) A Frvtefvl treatise of predestination,..with an apology of the same, against the swynyshe gruntinge of the Epicures and Atheystes of oure time.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 67 When in Swinish sleepe, Their drenched Natures lyes.

1694 F. Bragge Pract. Disc. Parables xi. 381 Drunkenness, that swinish vice.

1771 Gen. Evening Post 26 Feb. I know a man whose countenance always put me in mind of a hog; and his predominant passions, or appetites, through life, have been remarkably swinish.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. x. 87 In his worse than swinish state..he was a pretty object for any eyes.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxxiii. 539 Swinish guzzling! Why couldn't they do a little useful work instead of squeegeeing their hams and bellies?

2010 West Australian (Perth) (Nexis) 13 Aug. 5 The jaw-droppingly swinish attitudes of the men and the va-va-voom curves of the women.

a. Designating a pig; of the nature of a pig; consisting of pigs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [adjective] > of or relating to or having the nature of a swine

swinelyeOE

porcine?a1425

swinishc1450

aprine1519

suillary1762

suilline1853

suid1864

suidian1880

c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) l. 17771 (MED) He bad..þat þies folke grett and small Suld for bere swynyse flesch.

1560 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodyake of Lyfe iii. sig. F.vii^v For as that hag dame Circes did, trasforme [sic] to swinish kynde.

1612 S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts (Hunterian Club) 27 Directly like the swinish Hogge he liues, That feeds on fruit which from the tree doth fall.

1799 S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons I. ii. vii. 316 Ina..was amazed to find..a swinish litter on the couch of his repose.

1830 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in Foreign Rev. Jan. 10 All sorts of bovine, swinish, and feathered cattle.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lxvi. 331 To have its site defiled with swinish offerings and Pagan shrines.

2018 Sussex Express (Nexis) 30 Mar. As well as the professional truffle hunters and their remarkable swinish assistants.

b. Resembling or reminiscent of a pig, esp. in appearance; like that of a pig.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [adjective] > of or relating to or having the nature of a swine > resembling a swine

swinish1565

1565 A. Nowell Reproufe f. 88^v It is greate pitie, that he [sc. Pighius] had not had accordyng to his Pighishe name, an hoggishe groine in steede of his nose, & a swinish body accordingly.

1600 N. Breton Pasquils Mistresse sig. D^v Her breath be for the swinish nose too strong.

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xv. 128 Human nature can hardly be represented more debased than in the character of the Silenus..where the bulging-line..runs through all the features of the face, as well as the other parts of his swinish body.

1805 S. Weston Werneria I. 13 The swinish smell, Most fetid [of swine-stone].

1816 Chron. 17/1 in Ann. Reg. 1815 The pig's face is as firmly believed in by many, as Joanna Southcot's pregnancy... Though no Parson Tozer has as yet mounted the rostrum to preach in support of the face, There is hardly a company in which this swinish female is not talked of.

1889 W. C. Russell Marooned I. xiv. 262 The swinish outline of the porpoise.

2004 S. J. Greenblatt Will in World i. 31 Some of the older ones probably remembered the swinish face of Henry VIII.

3. Of food, a shelter, etc.: intended for pigs; fit (only) for pigs; of low quality, unpleasant; dirty, messy.

ΚΠ

c1548 J. Bale Answere to Papystycall Exhortacyon sig. A.2 Ther darnell and ther chaffe Ther swylle and swynyshe draffe.

1592 N. Breton Pilgrimage to Paradise 74 The sweetest wine, is but as swinish wash, Vnto the water, of the well of life.

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 236 Nor what Dodona sawes relates, That breeds the Akorne swynish cates Which groue from Ioues mouth soundeth fates.

1775 J. Brand On Illicit Love 19 Who drink the poison of thy treach'rous eye, With Circe stabling in the swinish sty!

1846 Standard 28 Sept. The facility of obtaining this swinish food [sc. the potato] led to improvident marriages, a numerous and poverty-engendered offspring.

1996 E. E. Rehmus tr. H. Vincenot Prophet of Compostela vi. 90 Everyone can smell your swinish pen from miles away! You old pig!

Derivatives

ˈswinishly adv. in a manner thought characteristic of a pig; lazily, greedily, dirtily, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adverb] > coarsely

swinelyeOE

greata1425

swinishly1542

coarsely1678

coarse1680

crudely1881

swinely1881

crassly1883

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > unmannerly > roughly or with lack of refinement

homelyc1390

rudelyc1405

greata1425

swinishly1542

clubbishly1548

carterly1556

homelily1556

brutishly1580

loutishly1580

boorishly1605

brutely1605

inurbanely1610

mechanically1613

porterly1659

coarsely1678

coarse1680

brutally1824

vulgarly1831

crudely1881

cubbishly1883

yobbishly1984

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adverb] > animal sensuality > swinishly

swinelyeOE

swinishly1542

hoggishly1573

swine-like1585

swinely1881

1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier sig. R.ii^v To put his chylde into an Abbay..there to lyue ydlely, swinyshly & irreligiously pampred vp with all delicious fare.

1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 68 The drunkard hath nothing to say for himself, when you ask him why he lives so swinishly.

1759 J. Rutty Diary 11 Jan. in Spiritual Diary & Soliloquies (1776) I. 218 Feasted swinishly and to inflation: two dishes hurt.

1871 Galaxy July 140/2 A clergyman who was so rigidly and frigidly literal, so densely and swinishly unimaginative and matter-of-fact, that he was wholly incapable of entertaining or comprehending a metaphor of any kind whatever.

2002 New Yorker 16 Dec. 106/1 There is barely a scene in which, glazed with inertia, he does not swinishly loll.

ˈswinishness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > coarseness

coarseness1541

grossness1563

swinishness1591

piggishness1796

piggery1854

blowsiness1866

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour

villainyc1340

churlhood1382

rudenessc1405

boistousness1526

uplandishness1530

rusticity1531

coarseness1541

loutishnessa1556

grossness1563

boorishness1570

rusticality1572

clownishness1576

bouerie1577

roughness1581

clownery1589

swinishness1591

peasantryc1592

inurbanity1598

community1600

rusticalnessa1603

clownagea1637

wildness1639

vulgarness1642

unpolishedness1652

brutism1687

mismanners1697

unpoliteness1700

brutality1709

mechanicism1710

indelicacy1712

untameness1727

vulgarism1749

vulgaritya1774

shag1785

piggishness1796

cubbishness1828

sylvanity1832

rusticness1838

plebeianness1840

swainishness1854

baboonery1857

yahooism1862

slanginess1865

bucolicism1879

vulgarianism1920

outbackery1961

yobbishness1969

ockerism1974

blokeishness1989

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality > swinish quality or behaviour

hoggishness1614

hoggism1786

swinishness1791

swinehood1822

hoggery1834

swinery1846

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Porqueria Swinishnes.

1618 A. Cade St. Paules Agonie 26 The drunkard in his swinishnesse, the Lecher in his gotishnesse.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 155 Johnson laughed heartily..at his mentioning, with such a serious regret, occasional instances of ‘swinishness in eating’.

1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God Concl. 333 It..‘stands out in noble contrast to the swinishness of the Campanian villas’.

2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlvii. 786 As she had nowhere else to go..she could not, not, not afford to despise another man for his swinishness, his coldness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	swinish
释义	swinishadj. Brit. /ˈswʌɪnɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈswaɪnɪʃ/ Forms: see swine n. and -ish suffix¹; also 1600s 1800s– swineish. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: swine n., -ish suffix¹. Etymology: < swine n. + -ish suffix¹. Compare earlier swinely adj.Compare German schweinisch of or relating to pigs (15th cent.), (now usually) filthy, dirty, showing characteristics traditionally associated with pigs (18th cent.), Swedish †svinesk like a pig (1559; rare). Specific forms. The Middle English form swynys (see quot. a1475 at sense 1b) could alternatively be interpreted as showing the genitive of swine n. 1. a. Of a person or group: having or displaying one or more of the negative characteristics traditionally associated with pigs; esp. greedy, dirty, lazy; coarse, degraded, or uncivilized. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > animal nature in man > swinish swinelyeOE swinisha1200 hoggishc1475 porkish1545 hogling1650 a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 37 [They] ben icleped swinisse men and on hem wuneð þe deuel. 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 25 The Lorde B. and your Antichristian swinish rable. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D4 I loue the quicke witted Italians,..because they mortally detest this surley swinish Generation. 1606 S. Gardiner Bk. Angling 22 Drunkards, swinish Epicures, heretiques. 1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 212 Then every Piglin she commends, And likens them to all their swinish Friends. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 117 Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. View more context for this quotation 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned IV. xxi. 330 The reeking, gaping, swinish crowd. 1968 H. S. Thompson Let. 24 Sept. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 128 You and your swinish, hypocritical ilk. 2018 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 2 Sept. 12 Too many big dinners are being consumed, by the swinish Eurocrats. b. Of an action, trait, etc.: coarse, debased, uncivilized, or otherwise thought characteristic of or befitting a pig. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > animal nature in man > swinish > of actions swinisha1475 a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 3718 He, in hys swynys lawe, Off hys rudnesse bestyal, Ne kan no ferther se at al Toward the hevene. ?1563 Veron (title) A Frvtefvl treatise of predestination,..with an apology of the same, against the swynyshe gruntinge of the Epicures and Atheystes of oure time. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 67 When in Swinish sleepe, Their drenched Natures lyes. View more context for this quotation 1694 F. Bragge Pract. Disc. Parables xi. 381 Drunkenness, that swinish vice. 1771 Gen. Evening Post 26 Feb. I know a man whose countenance always put me in mind of a hog; and his predominant passions, or appetites, through life, have been remarkably swinish. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. x. 87 In his worse than swinish state..he was a pretty object for any eyes. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxxiii. 539 Swinish guzzling! Why couldn't they do a little useful work instead of squeegeeing their hams and bellies? 2010 West Australian (Perth) (Nexis) 13 Aug. 5 The jaw-droppingly swinish attitudes of the men and the va-va-voom curves of the women. 2. a. Designating a pig; of the nature of a pig; consisting of pigs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [adjective] > of or relating to or having the nature of a swine swinelyeOE porcine?a1425 swinishc1450 aprine1519 suillary1762 suilline1853 suid1864 suidian1880 c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) l. 17771 (MED) He bad..þat þies folke grett and small Suld for bere swynyse flesch. 1560 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodyake of Lyfe iii. sig. F.vii^v For as that hag dame Circes did, trasforme [sic] to swinish kynde. 1612 S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts (Hunterian Club) 27 Directly like the swinish Hogge he liues, That feeds on fruit which from the tree doth fall. 1799 S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons I. ii. vii. 316 Ina..was amazed to find..a swinish litter on the couch of his repose. 1830 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in Foreign Rev. Jan. 10 All sorts of bovine, swinish, and feathered cattle. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lxvi. 331 To have its site defiled with swinish offerings and Pagan shrines. 2018 Sussex Express (Nexis) 30 Mar. As well as the professional truffle hunters and their remarkable swinish assistants. b. Resembling or reminiscent of a pig, esp. in appearance; like that of a pig. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [adjective] > of or relating to or having the nature of a swine > resembling a swine swinish1565 1565 A. Nowell Reproufe f. 88^v It is greate pitie, that he [sc. Pighius] had not had accordyng to his Pighishe name, an hoggishe groine in steede of his nose, & a swinish body accordingly. 1600 N. Breton Pasquils Mistresse sig. D^v Her breath be for the swinish nose too strong. 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xv. 128 Human nature can hardly be represented more debased than in the character of the Silenus..where the bulging-line..runs through all the features of the face, as well as the other parts of his swinish body. 1805 S. Weston Werneria I. 13 The swinish smell, Most fetid [of swine-stone]. 1816 Chron. 17/1 in Ann. Reg. 1815 The pig's face is as firmly believed in by many, as Joanna Southcot's pregnancy... Though no Parson Tozer has as yet mounted the rostrum to preach in support of the face, There is hardly a company in which this swinish female is not talked of. 1889 W. C. Russell Marooned I. xiv. 262 The swinish outline of the porpoise. 2004 S. J. Greenblatt Will in World i. 31 Some of the older ones probably remembered the swinish face of Henry VIII. 3. Of food, a shelter, etc.: intended for pigs; fit (only) for pigs; of low quality, unpleasant; dirty, messy. ΚΠ c1548 J. Bale Answere to Papystycall Exhortacyon sig. A.2 Ther darnell and ther chaffe Ther swylle and swynyshe draffe. 1592 N. Breton Pilgrimage to Paradise 74 The sweetest wine, is but as swinish wash, Vnto the water, of the well of life. 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 236 Nor what Dodona sawes relates, That breeds the Akorne swynish cates Which groue from Ioues mouth soundeth fates. 1775 J. Brand On Illicit Love 19 Who drink the poison of thy treach'rous eye, With Circe stabling in the swinish sty! 1846 Standard 28 Sept. The facility of obtaining this swinish food [sc. the potato] led to improvident marriages, a numerous and poverty-engendered offspring. 1996 E. E. Rehmus tr. H. Vincenot Prophet of Compostela vi. 90 Everyone can smell your swinish pen from miles away! You old pig! Derivatives ˈswinishly adv. in a manner thought characteristic of a pig; lazily, greedily, dirtily, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adverb] > coarsely swinelyeOE greata1425 swinishly1542 coarsely1678 coarse1680 crudely1881 swinely1881 crassly1883 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > unmannerly > roughly or with lack of refinement homelyc1390 rudelyc1405 greata1425 swinishly1542 clubbishly1548 carterly1556 homelily1556 brutishly1580 loutishly1580 boorishly1605 brutely1605 inurbanely1610 mechanically1613 porterly1659 coarsely1678 coarse1680 brutally1824 vulgarly1831 crudely1881 cubbishly1883 yobbishly1984 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adverb] > animal sensuality > swinishly swinelyeOE swinishly1542 hoggishly1573 swine-like1585 swinely1881 1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier sig. R.ii^v To put his chylde into an Abbay..there to lyue ydlely, swinyshly & irreligiously pampred vp with all delicious fare. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 68 The drunkard hath nothing to say for himself, when you ask him why he lives so swinishly. 1759 J. Rutty Diary 11 Jan. in Spiritual Diary & Soliloquies (1776) I. 218 Feasted swinishly and to inflation: two dishes hurt. 1871 Galaxy July 140/2 A clergyman who was so rigidly and frigidly literal, so densely and swinishly unimaginative and matter-of-fact, that he was wholly incapable of entertaining or comprehending a metaphor of any kind whatever. 2002 New Yorker 16 Dec. 106/1 There is barely a scene in which, glazed with inertia, he does not swinishly loll. ˈswinishness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > coarseness coarseness1541 grossness1563 swinishness1591 piggishness1796 piggery1854 blowsiness1866 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour villainyc1340 churlhood1382 rudenessc1405 boistousness1526 uplandishness1530 rusticity1531 coarseness1541 loutishnessa1556 grossness1563 boorishness1570 rusticality1572 clownishness1576 bouerie1577 roughness1581 clownery1589 swinishness1591 peasantryc1592 inurbanity1598 community1600 rusticalnessa1603 clownagea1637 wildness1639 vulgarness1642 unpolishedness1652 brutism1687 mismanners1697 unpoliteness1700 brutality1709 mechanicism1710 indelicacy1712 untameness1727 vulgarism1749 vulgaritya1774 shag1785 piggishness1796 cubbishness1828 sylvanity1832 rusticness1838 plebeianness1840 swainishness1854 baboonery1857 yahooism1862 slanginess1865 bucolicism1879 vulgarianism1920 outbackery1961 yobbishness1969 ockerism1974 blokeishness1989 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality > swinish quality or behaviour hoggishness1614 hoggism1786 swinishness1791 swinehood1822 hoggery1834 swinery1846 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Porqueria Swinishnes. 1618 A. Cade St. Paules Agonie 26 The drunkard in his swinishnesse, the Lecher in his gotishnesse. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 155 Johnson laughed heartily..at his mentioning, with such a serious regret, occasional instances of ‘swinishness in eating’. 1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God Concl. 333 It..‘stands out in noble contrast to the swinishness of the Campanian villas’. 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlvii. 786 As she had nowhere else to go..she could not, not, not afford to despise another man for his swinishness, his coldness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1200
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