porcine Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective relating to or suggesting swine
    • comparison between human and porcine pleasures
  2. adjective satellite repellently fat
    gross.
    • a bald porcine old man
  3. adjective satellite resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
    hoggish; swinish; piggy; piggish.
    • piggish table manners
    • the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father
    • swinish slavering over food

WordNet

Por"cine adjective
Etymology
L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See Pork.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. "Porcine cheeks." G. Eliot.

Webster 1913