swine

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Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.

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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are. Edward Albee

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines. Joseph Stalin

Age Before Beauty." "Pearls Before Swine. Dorothy Parker

The still swine eat the mash. the wind ones run past it. Danish Proverb

He that makes himself dirt is trod on by the swine. Italian Proverb

Cast not pearls to swine. Korean Proverb

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