Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who tends swine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A herder or keeper of swine. Also
swineward .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A keeper of swine.
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- noun A person who herds and tends swine, a keeper of
swine (pigs ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a herder or swine
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then she called the swineherd to her apartment and said: "Bring the beggar hither.
Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1879
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Telemachus was the first to notice him, and calling the swineherd, who was sitting near, he gave him a loaf of bread and a good handful of meat, and bade him carry it to the beggar.
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And Telemachus called the swineherd to him, and took a whole loaf out of the fair basket, and of flesh so much as his hands could hold in their grasp, saying: 39
Book XVII Homer 1909
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` ` Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald, '' said Wamba with his usual effrontery; ` ` the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew. ''
Ivanhoe 1892
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The scene shifts (l. 301) to the hut of the swineherd, which is the present destination of Telemachus.
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883
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And Telemachus called the swineherd to him, and took a whole loaf out of the fair basket, and of flesh so much as his hands could hold in their grasp, saying:
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878
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"Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald," said Wamba with his usual effrontery; "the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew."
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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"Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald," said Wamba with his usual effrontery; "the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew."
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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He goes off to a distant country and wastes his resources on riotous living and eventually has to work as a "swineherd" (clearly a low point as swine are unclean in Judaism.)
Joan E. Dowlin: Allen Iverson: The Prodigal Son Returns to Philadelphia 2009
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“Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald,” said Wamba with his usual effrontery; “the swineherd will be a fit usher to the
Ivanhoe 2004
nahiku888 commented on the word swineherd
I kinda like this word - it has an old world feeling about it.
June 18, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word swineherd
The swineherd is swain to the goosegirl.
June 18, 2009
dimã©lion commented on the word swineherd
is the definition meant to be "a herder _of_ swine"?
June 18, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word swineherd
Alackaday! the goosegirl wails, for her swain was a swine, you see.
June 18, 2009
rolig commented on the word swineherd
And she mourns a hope that always fails and a love that never can be.
(Qroqqa, the quatrain yearned to be completed!)
June 18, 2009
YeOldeWorde commented on the word swineherd
-herd has so much potential. Goat-herd, swine-herd, people-herd...
March 20, 2012