different between fiend vs swine

English

Alternative forms

• fend

Etymology

From Middle English feend, f?nd, fiend, feond, viend, veond (“enemy; demon”), from Old English f?ond (“enemy”), from Proto-Germanic *fijandz.

Compare Old Norse fjándi (Icelandic fjandi, Danish fjende, Norwegian fiende, Swedish fiende, West Frisian fijân, Low German Feend, Fiend, Dutch vijand, German Feind, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (fijands)), with all of them meaning foe. The Old Norse and Gothic terms are present participles of the corresponding verbs fjá/???????????????????? (fijan, “to hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to hate”) (compare Sanskrit ????? (p??yati, “(he) reviles”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?nd/
• Rhymes: -i?nd

Noun

fiend (plural fiends)

1. A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.

   Synonym: monster
2. A very evil person.

   Synonym: monster

3. (obsolete) An enemy; a foe.

4. (religious, archaic) The enemy of mankind, specifically, the Devil; Satan.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 35:

     At the confirmation ceremony the bishop would lay his hands on the child and tie around its forehead a linen band […] . This was believed to strengthen him against the assaults of the fiend […]

5. (informal) An addict or fanatic.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fiend (third-person singular simple present fiends, present participle fiending, simple past and past participle fiended)

1. (slang, intransitive) To yearn; to be desperate (for something).
   • 1999, Macy Gray, Jeremy Ruzumna, Jinsoo Lim, David Wilder, I Try (song)

     I play it off, but I'm dreaming of you / And I'll try to keep my cool, but I'm fiendin'

   • 2011, Emma J. Stephens, For a Dancer: The Memoir

     I am back in San Francisco at the Clift Hotel, fiending for my fix.

Translations

Anagrams

• endif, finde, fined, indef, indef.

Middle English

Noun

fiend (plural fiendes)

1. Alternative form of feend

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.