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swine
noun- an unpleasant person, especially a coarse or degraded person; a sensualist UK, 1842
- [M]ost editions of Erskine May, the parliamentary rule book, contain a long list of unparliamentary phrases. They include murderer, swine, liar (of course), stool pigeon, guttersnipe, cad, Pecksniffian cant and–you’ve guessed it–dirty dog. — The Guardian, 5 October 2001
- a police officer; the police US
- — Pamela Munro, U.C.L.A. Slang, p. 112, 1997
- a prison guard US
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 53, 1976
- a difficult or awkward thing UK, 1933
From the sense as “an unpleasant person”. - [T]hat language! Is it eating Spam for breakfast that makes them sound as though they’re trying to clear a huge wad of phlegm from their throats, or is it the immortal tongue of Goethe and Nietzsche? Whatever–what a swine. — The Guardian, 22 September 2001
- leather, especially leather car upholstery US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 7, November 2002
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