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swineherd en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈswaɪnˌhɜːd/ (UK)
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Etymology

From Middle English swynherde, from Old English swīnhierde. Cognate with German Schweinehirt.

Meanings

1. A person who herds and tends swine, a keeper of swine (pigs).
   • Engels made no secret of his contempt for the Balkan peoples: the Bulgarians were a race of swineherds who would do best to keep quiet under Turkish rule pending the European revolution. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 89:
   • But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers? 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13:

Forms

Deriveds

swineherdess · swineherdship

Relateds

horseherd · goatherd · hogherd · herdswoman · herdsman · Herdsman · swanherd · bearherd · cowherd · oxherd · herd · herding dog · herder · neatherd · gooseherd · herd instinct · shepherd

Translations (68)

pl świniopas (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · vec porcàr (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · la porcarius (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · orv свинопасъ (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · hy խոզապահ (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · sh свѝња̄р (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · ca porquer (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · sq derrar (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · gl porqueira (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · it porcaio (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · fr porchère (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · ro porcar (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · rup purcar (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · izh sikuri (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · uk свина́рка (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · hu kanász (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · be свіна́р (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · tr domuz çobanı (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · eu txerrizain (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · sh svinjàrica (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · es porquero (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · pl świniarz (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · la subulcus (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · ca porquerol (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · de Schweinehirte (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · de Schweinehirt (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · gl porqueiro (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · de Schweinehüter (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · ast gocheru (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · enm swynherde (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · ro porcăreasă (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · pdt Schwienshoad (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · de Schweinehirtin (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · be свінапа́с (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · eu urdezain (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · hu disznópásztor (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · ga muicí (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · ru свина́рь (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · grc συβώτης (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · hu kondás (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · pl świniarka (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · pt porqueiro (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · fr porcher (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · uk свинопа́с (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · grc χοιροβοσκός (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · bg свина́р (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · ru свинопа́с (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · uk свина́р (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · vec porchèr (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · ang swīnhierde (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · de Schweinehüterin (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · sga muccaid (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · zle-ort свинопасъ (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · sh свиња̀рица (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · sv svinaherde (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · oc porquièr (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · cy meichiad (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · pt porcariço (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · mk свињар (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · cs sviňák (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · mk свињарка (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · fi sikopaimen (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · sh svìnjār (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · bg свина́рка (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · ru свина́рка (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · es porquera (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · be свіна́рка (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs) · sk sviniar (person who herds and tends swine, keeper of swine/pigs)