swineherd

[ swahyn-hurd ]

noun

1. a person who tends swine.

swineherd

/ ˈswaɪnˌhɜːd /

noun

1. archaic.
   a person who looks after pigs

Other Words From

• swineherdship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of swineherd¹

before 1100; Middle English; late Old English swȳnhyrde. See swine, herd ²

Example Sentences

Presently he came to a second forest, and there he met another swineherd driving pigs.

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The statement may be dismissed as a fable, but it is more than probable that the assertion that he was a swineherd is correct.

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Is it by short clothes of yellow serge, and swineherd horns, that an infant of genius is educated?

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She appeared to Ulysses in the steading of Eumœus, the swineherd, as a “woman tall and fair, and skilful in splendid handiwork.”

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The boy was afterwards sold to Laertes, the father of Ulysses, in whose service he put on immortality as the swineherd Eumæus.

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