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smarter than dogs, cleaner than their reputation, and unfairly named after every villain.
means A pig, or a hog — the domesticated animal raised for meat — often used figuratively as an insult for someone greedy, filthy, or contemptible.
from From Old English 'swīn,' a word stretching back through Proto-Germanic '*swīnan' (cousin to German 'Schwein' and Dutch 'zwijn') to a Proto-Indo-European root '*su-,' which also gave us 'sow.' The same ancient '*su-' echoes in Latin 'sus' and Greek 'hus,' suggesting people across Europe have been naming this animal with strikingly similar sounds for thousands of years. The insulting sense — a 'swine' as a loathsome person — is a much later turn, layering human contempt onto a creature that, as the essence notes, never quite earned it.
- big brains
- Pigs outsmart three-year-old humans on some tests
- clean freaks
- They wallow in mud only to cool down
- insult origin
- Calling someone swine dates back centuries
- flying flu
- Swine flu jumped pigs to humans in 2009
- no sweat
- Pigs barely sweat, hence the mud baths
trichinella spiralis — parasitic roundworm found in undercooked pork that infects 11 million people annually
african swine fever — viral disease that killed over 100 million pigs in china between 2018-2020
pig farming in iowa — produces 24% of all us pork with 9 million hogs at any given time