swine

«swine» in Mova's school dictionary: a pig — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (swine, plural swine)

meaning for a pupil

1) A swine is a pig. tree →

2) (insult) A swine is a cruel or nasty person; this use is rude. tree →

sense in the lessons

in farm settings and old tales, swine are pigs kept for food; the insult is used in tales against a rude person

examples

• The farmer fed the swine. tree →
• Athene found him feeding swine. tree →
• You swine, you took my sweets! tree →

note

the plural is also «swine», so counting pigs gives the same word: 3 swine

In the corpora

• As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «swine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.