different between cad vs swine

cad

English

Etymology

Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from dialectal capdet (chief, captain), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (head).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kæd/
  • Rhymes: -æd

Noun

cad (plural cads)

  1. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
    Synonyms: villain, dog
  2. (archaic) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.
    • c. 1835, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses" (in Sketches by Boz)
      We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.
  3. (Britain, obsolete, slang) An idle hanger-on about innyards.

Derived terms

  • caddish

Translations

See also

  • no way to treat a lady

Anagrams

  • ACD, ADC, CDA, D.Ac., DAC, DAc, DAc., DCA

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • cadu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cade?, from Latin cad?. Compare Daco-Romanian c?dea, cad.

Verb

cad (third-person singular present indicative cadi/cade, past participle cãdzutã)

  1. I fall.

Related terms

  • cãdeari/cãdeare
  • cãderi
  • cãdzut
  • cãdzui
  • scad

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cid, from Proto-Celtic *k?id, from Proto-Indo-European *k?id, compare *k?is.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kad??/

Pronoun

cad

  1. (interrogative) what
  2. (Munster) (interrogative) where

Synonyms

  • céard
  • cad é
  • caidé

Derived terms

  • cad chuige (why)
  • cad ina thaobh (why)

Further reading

  • Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cía”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • “cad” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 103.
  • "cad" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kad/
  • Rhymes: -ad

Verb

cad

  1. first-person singular present indicative of c?dea
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of c?dea
  3. third-person plural present indicative of c?dea

Somali

Noun

cad ?

  1. white

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka?d/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *kad (battle), from Proto-Celtic *katus (compare Old Irish cath), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh?tus (fight).

Noun

cad f (plural cadau or cadoedd)

  1. battle, army
Derived terms
  • Cadan

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • caed, cafwyd

Verb

cad

  1. impersonal preterite of cael

Mutation

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swine

English

Etymology

From Middle English swine, swin, from Old English sw?n, from Proto-Germanic *sw?n?, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (pig), equivalent to sow +? -en. Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish ?winia, Russian ??????? (svin?já), Latin s?inus, Latin s?s, Ancient Greek ?? (hûs), Persian ???? (xuk). See also sow.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /swa?n/
  • Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

swine (plural swine or swines)

  1. (plural swine) A pig (the animal).
  2. (derogatory) A contemptible person (plural swines).
  3. (slang, derogatory) A police officer; a "pig".
  4. (slang, derogatory) Something difficult or awkward; a pain.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:English collective nouns

Noun

swine

  1. (archaic) plural of sow

Anagrams

  • Wenis, Wiens, Wines, sewin, sinew, swein, we'ins, wenis, wines, wisen

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • swin, swein, swynne, zuin, swyn, swyne, sweyne, swiyn, suin, sqwyne

Etymology

From Old English sw?n, from Proto-Germanic *sw?n?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /swi?n/
  • Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

swine (plural swines)

  1. A pig, hog or swine.
  2. The meat of swine or pigs; pork.
  3. (colloquial) A disgraceful individual.

Synonyms

  • pigge
  • hog

Descendants

  • Scots: swine
  • English: swine

References

  • “sw?n(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

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