Now this was just Fascinating, as well...
"porcine"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
porcine adj 1: relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures" 2: repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [syn: {gross}] 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},{swinish}]
-and the if you check out the word "hog", it gets even interestinglier!
"hog"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hog \Hog\, v. i. (Naut.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as
to have this form.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hog \Hog\, n. [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and meaning orig., a castrated boar;cf. also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor.houc'h, hoc'h. Cf. {Haggis}, {Hogget}, and {Hoggerel}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A quadruped of the genus {Sus}, and allied genera of {Suid[ae]}; esp., the domesticated varieties of {S. scrofa}, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, {lard} and {pork}; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
[-which explains the word "wheel barrow"...wow!]
Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern Europe, are thought to have been derived from {Sus Indicus}.
2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]
4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. --Totten.
5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
{Bush hog}, {Ground hog}, etc.. See under {Bush}, {Ground}, etc.
{Hog caterpillar} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the green grapevine sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See {Hawk moth}.
**[Hog cholera], an epidemic contagious fever of swine, attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal... |
