swine
n. C / Un. a person who is very rude, cruel, or unpleasant. It is also an old-fashioned word for a pig.
n. a contemptible or unpleasant person; also used collectively to refer to pigs. Often carries a derogatory or highly informal tone when applied to people.
He is a total swine for lying to her like that.
The farmer kept his swine in a large, clean pen near the barn.
In the classic novel, the antagonist is portrayed as a greedy swine who cares for nothing but his own wealth and status.
From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic swīn, from Proto-Germanic swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”). Cognates Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).
The plural form can be 'swine' (collective) or 'swines' (referring to multiple unpleasant people).