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swineherd
[swahyn-hurd]
noun
a person who tends swine.
swineherd
/ ˈɲɪˌɜː /
noun
archaica person who looks after pigs
Other Word Forms
- swineherdship noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of swineherd1
Example Sentences
When they had hidden the treasures in a nearby cave they separated, she to summon Telemachus home, he, whom her art had turned into a shambling ragged old man, to seek the swineherd.
She played a princess who has to give a swineherd 100 kisses in return for a bar of soap.
In contrast to everything that I just said about Native Australians, most New Guineans, such as Yali’s people, were farmers and swineherds.
She glanced up long enough to smile at the swineherd, then dropped her eyes again, making such a picture of awkward bashfulness that I was almost fooled myself.
They would have rolled him in the dust and torn him there by his own steading if the swineherd had not sprung up and flung his leather down, making a beeline for the open.
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