swineherd

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who herds, tends, and cares for pigs

   The swineherd led the pigs from their shelter to forage beneath the oak trees.

Inherited from Middle English swynherde and Old English swinhierde, a compound of swin ("pig, swine") + hierde ("herdsman, keeper"). It is cognate with German Schweinehirt and belongs to the same occupational pattern as cowherd and shepherd.

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