Associations to the word «Porcine»

Wiktionary

PORCINE, adjective. Of, or pertaining to, the pig.
PORCINE, adjective. Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.

Dictionary definition

PORCINE, adjective. Relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures".
PORCINE, adjective. Repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man".
PORCINE, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats