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UK
/pˈɔːsiːn/
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ADJECTIVE
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repellently fat
a bald porcine old man -
relating to or suggesting swine
comparison between human and porcine pleasures -
resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father
swinish slavering over food
piggish table manners
How To Use porcine In A Sentence
- So while visiting a disco in Rouen on Christmas Eve with his porcine coworker he decides to take his revenge.
- Her eyebrows were plucked flat, canopying small, olive drab, porcine eyes rimmed with red. Over the Edge
- The man drew on his cigarette and exhaled, his porcine eyes shrinking to pinpricks as they fixed themselves on Abel. AMAGANSETT
- We should actually think of eating pig products as an honour - we should worship our porcine buddies for providing us with sausages and bacon.
- The level of certainty is highest for bovine clones, followed in decreasing order of certainty, by porcine, caprine, and ovine clones.
- Results Gantaikang could effectively counteract the increase of HA, LN and PCIII level in serum, and attenuate hepatic collagen and reticulin proliferation induced by porcine serum in rats.
- No state is better acquainted with the porcine menace than Texas, where more than 2 million rampaging hogs cost landowners some $52 million in damages annually, and where lawmakers recently debated a bill that would have allowed private hunters to gun down pigs from the air. The Boar War
- McLaren AJ, Hampson DJ (1995) Pathogenicity of human and porcine intestinal spirochetes in day-old specific pathogen free chicks: an animal model of intestinal spirochetosis. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Unfortunately, in terms of the European Commission, nothing is less ‘European’ than this porcine hecatomb.
- This phenomenon of interface activation was originally detected in studies on porcine pancreatic lipase and was attributed to a conformational change.