porkn.¹

Brit.

/pɔːk/, U.S.

/pɔrk/

Forms: Middle English poorke, Middle English porc, Middle English–1500s poork, Middle English–1700s porke, Middle English– pork, 1500s porcke, 1500s pourke, 1600s–1700s porck, 1900s– po'k (U.S. regional); Scottish pre-1700 porc, pre-1700 porck, pre-1700 1700s– pork, 1800s– purk (north-eastern).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French porc.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman porc, pork, porck, porke and Old French, Middle French, French porc domestic pig (1100), pork (1155), wild boar (1170), term of abuse for a dirty person (1226 in an isolated attestation; subsequently from 1640), term of abuse for a greedy or fat person (1690) < classical Latin porcus pig, especially male pig < the same Indo-European base as farrow n. Compare Old Occitan porc (11th cent.; Occitan pòrc), Catalan porc (1066), Spanish puerco wild boar, domestic pig (1044), Portuguese porco (908), Italian porco pig (1231–62), coarse, vulgar person (a1321).Earlier currency is perhaps implied in the surname Galfridus le Porkuiller (1215), although the identity of the second element is uncertain (perhaps compare filler n.¹).

a. The flesh of a pig used as food, esp. when uncured.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun]

swine flesheOE

porkc1300

baconc1330

brawn1377

pig1381

pork flesh?a1425

boara1475

gricea1475

hog flesh1528

hog meat1573

grunting-peck1699

hog1744

pigmeat1754

c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) 344 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 472 (MED) Huy nomen with heom..porc, motoun, and beof.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 265^v Boores [meat] is more hard & druye..þan tame pork [L. porcina domestica].

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 409 Poork, flesche, suilla.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. Cvij Take a quantyte of poorke and ony [= honey] and butter.

1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 27^v Aboue all kyndes of fleshe in nouryshyng the body, Galene most commendeth porke.

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. iv. 9/1 Porke is there a very costly dish.

1612 W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia iii. 20 in J. Smith Map of Virginia To make a feast or two with bisket, pork, beefe, fish, and oile, to relish our mouthes.

1665 R. May Accomplisht Cook 167 To carbonado a Rack of Pork.

1708 W. King Art of Cookery 2 Yet no Man lards his Pork with Orange-Peel, Or garnishes his Lamb with Spitch-cock-Eel.

1748 E. Darwin Let. in W. S. Dallas tr. E. Krause Life (1879) 9 We affirm Porck not only to be flesh but a devillish Sort of flesh.

1785 G. Washington Diaries II. 429 Began to put up my Hogs at the different Plantations, to fatten for Porke.

1821 I. Thomas Diary (1909) II. 76 Sent Legs of Pork to be baconed.

1895 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1894 9 It is the demand for wheat, the demand for beef, the demand for pork..which confers a money value upon them in markets.

1907 St. Nicholas Oct. 1136/2 Certain kinds of pork are called ‘Beechnut’, as if that name signifies especially ‘good eating’.

1968 M. Pyke Food & Society ii. 11 The finding of pig bones in prehistoric and early historic sites..is evidence that pork was esteemed as a nutritious food from the earliest times.

1990 California Apr. 46/3 Among the main courses, the tenderloin of pork is actually tender..but the rabbit and venison receive mixed reviews.

b. U.S. slang. Government funds or benefits dispensed by politicians in order to gain favour with patrons or constituents. See pork barrel n. 2.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > funds assigned on basis of political patronage

pork1879

barrel1884

1862 in D. W. Mitchell Ten Yrs. in U.S. xv. 271 To put myself in a position in which every wretch entitled to a vote would feel himself privileged to hold me under special obligations, would be giving rather too much pork for a shilling.]

1879 Congress. Rec. 28 Feb. 2131/1 St. Louis is going to have some of the ‘pork’ indirectly; but it will not do any good.

1916 N.Y. Evening Post 12 May 8/2 ‘Pork’ has hitherto stood for just one process, the parcelling out of Federal moneys for court houses, post offices, and waterways, not by States, but by Congressional districts.

1949 Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald 19 July 4/3 That difference of more than $54,000,000 includes a lot of pork for individual senators.

1962 Economist 20 Oct. 252/1 Pork is the generic name for the tasty morsels of federal spending..which a member of congress likes to bring back to his constituents.

1992 Economist 31 Oct. 120/3 Congressional pork and other forms of influence are not so much direct bribes to voters as appeals to the political action committees (PACs) that fork out money to pay for advertising campaigns.

2005 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 15 Jan. a4 The PRI and the leftist..PRD..adopted a federal budget full of pork to benefit state governments under their control.

c. Military slang. pork and beans n. [after the superficial resemblance in pronunciation to Portuguese n.] (a nickname for) Portuguese soldiers serving in the First World War (1914–18).

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > Portuguese

pork and beans1917

1917 E. Miller Camps, Tramps & Trenches (1939) 85 The Portuguese or ‘Pork and Cheese’ camp [at Sling].]

1917 Times 29 June 5/1 There were some who, at first, were disposed to call them ‘Pork-and-beans’, as having a general resemblance to the name Portuguese.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 228 Pork and beans, a nickname for the Portuguese troops serving on the Western Front.

1992 A. D. Harvey Collision of Empires vi. 237 Representations had to be made at the highest official levels to prohibit British troops from referring to their new allies as ‘Pork and Beans’.

d. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). The penis. Cf. pork sword n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis

weapona1000

tarsec1000

pintleOE

cock?c1335

pillicock?c1335

yard1379

arrowa1382

looma1400

vergea1400

instrumentc1405

fidcocka1475

privya1500

virile member (or yard)?1541

prickc1555

tool1563

pillock1568

penis1578

codpiece1584

needle1592

bauble1593

dildo1597

nag1598

virility1598

ferret1599

rubigo?a1600

Jack1604

mentula1605

virge1608

prependent1610

flute1611

other thing1628

engine1634

manhood1640

cod1650

quillity1653

rammer1653

runnion1655

pego1663

sex1664

propagator1670

membrum virile1672

nervea1680

whore-pipe1684

Roger1689

pudding1693

handle?1731

machine1749

shaft1772

jock1790

poker1811

dickyc1815

Johnny?1833

organ1833

intromittent apparatus1836

root1846

Johnson1863

Peter1870

John Henry1874

dickc1890

dingusc1890

John Thomasc1890

old fellowc1890

Aaron's rod1891

dingle-dangle1893

middle leg1896

mole1896

pisser1896

micky1898

baby-maker1902

old man1902

pecker1902

pizzle1902

willy1905

ding-dong1906

mickey1909

pencil1916

dingbatc1920

plonkerc1920

Johna1922

whangera1922

knob1922

tube1922

ding1926

pee-pee1927

prong1927

pud1927

hose1928

whang1928

dong1930

putz1934

porkc1935

wiener1935

weenie1939

length1949

tadger1949

winkle1951

dinger1953

winky1954

dork1961

virilia1962

rig1964

wee-wee1964

Percy1965

meat tool1966

chopper1967

schlong1967

swipe1967

chode1968

trouser snake1968

ding-a-ling1969

dipstick1970

tonk1970

noonies1972

salami1977

monkey1978

langer1983

wanker1987

c1935 in R. G. Holt Little ‘Dirty’ Comics (1971) 90 Ther creck a'tween yer thighs meks me ol' po'k rise.

1968 ‘A. D'Arcangelo’ Homosexual Handbk. 217 She will guard you like crazy against men, but leave the other coast clear, enabling you to slip the pork to one of her girl friends behind her back.

1999 M. Burgess Bloodtide (2001) viii. 29 How much nicer if I liked him sticking his pork where it wasn't wanted.

a. A pig. Also figurative. Now rare. In later use historical and regional (chiefly Irish English (northern)).Recorded earliest in pork flesh n.In quots. 1528 and 1598 distinguished from other types of pig.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun]

swineOE

hogOE

grice?c1225

pig?a1425

pork?a1425

grunterc1440

gussie15..

grunting-cheat1567

snorter1601

sow's-baby1699

grumphie1786

piggy-wig1870

turf-hog1880

troughster1892

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > adult

pork?a1425

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 144 Leue þai recent fruytez..crude porc [?c1425 Paris swynes; L. porcinas] flesh, & fish.

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 3121 (MED) Pouerall and pastorelles passede on aftyre With porkes to pasture at the price ȝates.

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. Fj Porkes of a yere or .ij. olde are better than yonge pygges.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 3837 Polidarius was pluccid as a porke fat.

1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 314 There were brought to the slaughter house..34. Porkes iij.s. viij.d. the peece, 91. Pigs vj.d. the peece.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. viii. 69 Sawsages, mingling the brawnes of Peacocks, with Porks flesh.

1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 83 Very large like Calves,..and as fat as Porks.

1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 214 A Pestilential Sow, a meazeled Pork, On the foundation has been long at work.

1799 R. Southey Pig in Morning Post & Gazetteer 24 May 2/4 Woe to the young posterity of pork, Their enemy is at hand.]

1887 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices V. 343 Hogs and porks, the word appearing to be used indifferently, are occasionally found.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 259/2 Pork, a pig.

b. derogatory. A coarse, uncultured, or stupid person; (also) a fat person.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] > uncultured person

runt1602

home-bred1609

pork1645

Huna1744

savage1762

heathen1817

Philistine1825

stringy-bark1833

roughneck1834

yahoo1861

yapc1894

lowbrow1901

meatball1937

primitive1967

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 12 I mean not to dispute Philosophy with this Pork, who never read any.

1862 W. D. Howells Let. 13 June in Sel. Lett. (1979) I. 117 He was..the most outrageous old pork I ever saw.

1933 J. T. Farrell Gas-house McGinty 113 The big pork couldn't make the grade.

1974 R. Price Wanderers 200 Buddy was a sap and a real pork to blow it all on the first roll.

2005 Ayr (Austral.) Advocate (Nexis) 21 Jan. (Sport section) 15 Good to see the Old Pork is diversifying his talents—perhaps they could use him as the ball with that shape.

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a. General attributive.

pork blubber n.

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1804 A. Wilson Let. 24 Dec. in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) I. 114 We..ate some pork-blubber and bread.

1999 J. Y. Shakoor Civil Rights Childhood xi. 172 I just barely made it behind long-legged Bernice, and slammed the handmade screen door into the snout of eight hundred pounds of pork blubber.

pork fat n.

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1710 tr. P. Dionis Course Chirurg. Operations 455 He is to make use of stronger Remedies, as Sorrel, Roots of Lillies and Marshmallows, Leaven and Pigeon's Dung, all of them boil'd in Pork Fat.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xix. 193 Hung a dripping slab of pork-fat over their lamp-wick.

1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Oct. a14/6 Detainees were forced to crawl through colonies of red ants, sometimes after pork fat had been rubbed into their skin.

pork griskin n.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > cuts or parts

pig's footc1475

hog's foot1561

hog's cheek1573

bald-rib1598

spring1598

list1623

griskin1699

chine1712

pork griskin1725

rearing1736

pork chop?1752

hand1794

faggot1815

hog round1819

sweet-bone1826

butt1845

pig trotter1851

pork belly1863

Hodge1879

fore-end1906

fore-hock1923

1725 P. Tisanus Epist. to G. Cheyne 32 If a nice Stomach loaths the Sight of a Beef-Stake, or Pork-Griskin, must its Owner be starv'd?

1879 J. R. Planché Island of Jewels ii. i. 32 Should it prove that this King Stood in his shoes but four feet of pork griskin.

1997 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 19 Dec. 26 Rub cloves of garlic into the pork Griskins. Place in a large pot and cover with water.

pork sausage n.

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1757 London Mag. 131/2 He who eats a pork sausage or a rabbit, would have been stoned to death.

1808 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1947) VIII. 728 Pork Sausage.

1905 E. Tuite Dishes for All Seasons 90 Scald a pound of pork sausages and remove the skin.

2003 Chile Pepper Feb. 25/1 We..happened upon a market where the speciality was chaurice, a seasoned pork sausage stuffed into a hog casing.

pork shop n.

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1769 I. Bickerstaff Dr. Last i. i. 23 A tallow chandler's widow, that lodg'd at the pork shop in Fetter-lane.

1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. vi. 182 That fellow is only fit for fly-flapper at a pork shop!

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 153 Resp girl (R. C.) wishes to hear of post in fruit or pork shop.

2004 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 24 Sept. t3 We stop..at Satriale's, the pork shop where Tony and his crew often meet.

pork steak n.

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1739 S. Harrison House-keeper's Pocket-bk. (ed. 2) 22 Rabbets cut in Pieces, with some fat Pork Steaks season'd in a Pye.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 305 He always..eats a supper off pork steaks, nearly raw.

1990 T. Ruprecht Toronto's Many Faces 364 Menu items include..tho soup (shrimp and barbecue pork), and grilled pork steak.

pork trade n.

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1770 A. Spiers Memorial for Mess. A. Spiers, A. Blackburn, & A. Syme 37 By dealing in a pork-trade, he could be more serviceable to his creditors than by remitting the effects themselves.

1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner 13 Here, too, is modest beauty from Ohio (papa in the pork trade).

1994 Meat Trade Jrnl. 5 May 20/1 The pork trade is patchy across the country.

b. Objective.

pork curer n.

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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 232 Pork-curers buy from farmers and dealers in the carcass.

1984 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 12 Feb. 14 The pig crisis does not seem to benefit the pork curers.

pork dealer n.

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1766 Liverpool Directory 20 Linaker and Brownley, pork dealers, &c. in tythbarn street.

1817 in Times 31 Dec. 2/3 T. Gibbon, Stretford, Lancashire, pork-dealer.

1996 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 8 Feb. 12 Danish and U.S. pork dealers lost their competitive edge as a result of the standard price hike.

pork pickling n.

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1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 May 3/2 A pork-pickling establishment..has lately been opened there.

1991 C. A. Wilson Waste not; want Not Index 159 Pork pickling recipe.

pork raiser n.

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1839 Jrnl. Indiana Ho. Representatives 8 Jan. 231 The scarcity..is likely to prove so mischievous to the interests of our pork raisers and dealers.

1938 Econ. Geogr. 14 36/1 (caption) The British market has been extremely profitable for Danish pork raisers.

2001 Star-Gaz. (Elmira, N.Y.) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 7 c Beef or pork-raisers are reluctant to slaughter an animal unless all of the meat can be sold.

pork raising n.

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1846 Comercial Rev. June 476 (heading) Pork raising in the West.

1872 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1871 9 354 He had said that pork raising stood pre~eminent as a branch of stock raising in our State.

1987 Acad. of Managem. Rev. 10 628/1 Sears started an Agricultural Foundation..to upgrade the quality of pork raising among farmers.

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porkburger n. a hamburger made from pork.

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1939 Amer. Speech 14 154/2 Porkburger, ground pork, in other words, sausage!

1962 Times 6 Feb. 7/2 (advt.) The following new products have recently been added to the Findus range: fish cakes,..porkburgers, steak and kidneyburgers.

2004 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 2 July 3 d See the..parade and talent show, eat free barbecue and porkburgers..before everyone meets back up for fireworks.

pork butcher n. (a) a person who slaughters pigs for sale as meat; (b) a shopkeeper who sells pork.

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the world > life > death > killing > killer of animals > [noun]

slaughterman1389

dog-killer1592

slaughterer1648

buffer1699

pork butcher1763

knacker1812

serpenticide1817

vulpicide1826

piggicide1837

canicide1852

ursicidea1861

birdicide1866

insecticide1866

horse-knacker1937

pigeoneer1944

piscicide1953

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of meat

butchera1325

tripe-seller1598

tripe-man1621

tripe-monger1621

turtler1740

porkman1749

rôtisseur1751

pork butcher1763

carcass-butcher1773

horse butcher1815

tripe-dresser1868

charcutier1894

meat-man1910

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > butchery > butcher

fleshmongerc1000

butchera1325

flesh-hewer1335

flesher1369

macegreffa1450

butcher man1481

kill-crow1593

pennyman1610

bovicide1678

pork butcher1763

carcass-butcher1773

butcheress1802

ox-feller1856

butchy1867

legger1876

charcutier1894

eviscerator1961

kill-cow-

1763 Beauties of all Mag. Sel. II. 389/2 Bacon enough I was sure of, because one of my wife's best friends was a pork butcher.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lxiii. 182 The pork-butchers are commonly Jews.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 57 The porkbutcher snapped two sheets from the pile, wrapped up her prime sausages and made a red grimace.

1991 Times 19 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 33/2 The guv'nor is a former pork butcher who has clearly not lost his touch.

pork butchering n. the action of slaughtering pigs for sale as meat.

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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > foodstuffs

victuallership1450

greengrocery1749

pork butchering1816

costermongering1822

costermongery1823

cheesemongering1826

costering1851

pork butchery1852

fishmongering1862

grocery1885

1816 Times 27 Nov. 1/3 Wanted,..a steady single man of good character, who has a perfect knowledge of the pork butchering business.

1873 Harper's Mag. July 312/1 The society's manufacturing departments..comprising tobacco manufacturing; bread, biscuit and cake baking, the industries of pork butchering, [etc.].

1986 G. R. Elton Parl. of Eng. 1559–81 iv. 78 The butchers twice ran into lack of cooperation when they tried to get prices reduced and pork-butchering better controlled.

pork butchery n. the action or process of slaughtering pigs for sale as meat; cuts of pork meat; (also) a shop or other premises where pigs are slaughtered or pork is sold.

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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > foodstuffs

victuallership1450

greengrocery1749

pork butchering1816

costermongering1822

costermongery1823

cheesemongering1826

costering1851

pork butchery1852

fishmongering1862

grocery1885

1852 tr. V. Hugo Crime of Dec. 2nd in U.S. Democratic Rev. Oct. 379/1 One of the officers was heard to say..‘Ceci va tourner à la charcuterie!’ (This will become a pork-butchery).

1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Oct. 673/1 [They] set a rabbinical winkle-seller on the road to fortune which leads to pork-butchery.

2004 Independent (Nexis) 1 May A new shop..specialises in pork butchery and charcuterie.

pork butt n. U.S. a large cut of meat taken from the upper shoulder of a pig; cf. butt n.⁶ 5.

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1845 Milwaukie (Wisconsin Territory) Daily Sentinel 3 May (advt.) Cheap for cash—Whiskey, dried Apples, do Peaches, Mess Pork, Pork Butts, Superfine Flour by the barrel.

1915 Hotel Monthly Oct. 79/2 The pork butts are of two classes, the Boston butts and the lean butts.

2011 Time Out N.Y. 23 June 18/3 For an extra $10 each..another main, like the rich, tender pork butt.

pork eater n. (a) a person who eats pork; (b) Canadian a person engaged on the trade route by canoe between Montreal and Grand Portage, and characterized as eating pork as opposed to the preserved meats eaten by those who travelled the more difficult interior routes; (also) any canoeist, esp. one who is inexperienced (now historical).

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > paddler of canoe

canoeman1681

paddler1770

pork eater1793

kayaker1856

kayak man1864

canoeist1866

canoer1866

kayakist1946

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. v. 22 If we grow all to be pork eaters, we shall not shortly haue a rasher on the coles for mony.

1705 (title) A pill for pork eaters, or A Scots lancet for an English swelling.

1793 J. MacDonell Diary 5 July in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 94 Between two and three hundred yards to the East of the N.W. Fort beyond the Pork eaters camp is the spot Mess^rs David and Peter Grant have selected to build upon.

1859 P. Kane Wanderings of Artist 34 The men who usually work this brigade of [Hudson Bay Company] canoes are hired at Lachine, and are called by the uncouth names of mangeurs du lard, or pork-eaters.

1953 Beaver Dec. 50 The provisions for the Crew were Pork & Biscuits; from which circumstance the young recruits were called ‘Pork Eaters’ to distinguish them from the old Winterers, who feed chiefly on ‘Pemican’.

2004 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 22 Dec. 3 Most pork eaters would not be aware of the horrifying conditions in which the animals were kept.

porkfish n. any of various grunts (family Haemulidae) of the western Atlantic; (now) spec. Anisotremus virginicus, which has longitudinal yellow stripes, yellow fins, and two thick black bars on the head and body.

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the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun]

mudfish1502

sprat1552

frogfish1598

rockfish1605

yellowtaila1622

sleeper1668

picarel1688

hogfish1735

porkfish1735

sucker1753

zebrafish1771

yellowbelly1775

white steenbras1801

stone-toter1817

stargazer1842

warehou1848

baardman1853

goatfish1864

holostome1864

spot snapper1876

suck-fish1876

mademoiselle1882

queenfish1883

cigar-fish1884

emperor fish1884

rock beauty1885

oilfish1896

aholehole1897

berrugate1898

Photoblepharon1902

sweet-lip1934

rabbitfish1941

redbait1960

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Pomadysidae (grunts) > member of

porgy1725

porkfish1735

margate1933

pinkie1948

1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 315 The Pork-Fish. The Bahamians esteem this a good Fish.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 81 The Norfolk Hog-fish, Pomodasys fulvomaculatus,..is the..‘Pork-fish’ and ‘Whiting’ at Key West.

1933 W. H. Chute Guide John G. Shedd Aquarium 108 Anisotremus virginicus—Porkfish. This strikingly colored fish is abundant on the Florida coast.

1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xv. 255/1 Most grunts form shoals as juveniles; some, such as the porkfish, Anisotremus.., continue to shoal as adults.

pork ham n. the cooked ham of a pig; (also) a joint of this.

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1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 52 Any Pork Ham does for this, that is well made.

1851 J. F. W. Johnston Notes N. Amer. iii. 73 Pork ham was a frequent relish to our tea-dinners and tea-teas in this part of the world.

1914 J. F. Snell Elem. Househ. Chem. xxxix. 215 The average pork ham yields about 17 Calories from protein to 83 from fat, and the average side of pork only 7 Calories from protein out of every 100.

2005 Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser (Nexis) 31 Aug. d1 Cumuze wouldn't give away his father's secret basting sauce recipe, but he agreed to talk about the importance of basting the pork hams.

pork hog n. = porker n. 1a.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > fattened or intended for slaughter

swine hog1381

pork hoga1470

porker?a1568

baconer1741

bacon-pig1834

porket1837

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > male > castrated or hog > fattened

pork hoga1470

bacon-hog?a1500

porker?a1568

porket1837

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 295 As fatte..as a porke hog.

1768 A. Young Farmer's Lett. (ed. 2) 350 One hundred and forty-six thousand, nine hundred and thirty pork hogs of which I reckon 80,000 fatted at London.

1848 Commerc. Rev. South & West Aug. 105 It is computed that about 1,000 head of pork hogs were sold during the winter.

1999 Assoc. Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 8 Dec. Yearly, the Goosemobile carries the products of 15 to 18 pork hogs, 15 to 18 lambs, about three beef cows, [etc.].

pork house n. a warehouse, shop, etc., trading in pork; a restaurant specializing in pork.

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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in food and drink > in specific foodstuffs > firm or establishment

pork house1836

1836 J. D. Davidson Jrnl. Oct. in Jrnl. Southern Hist. 1 (1935) 350 It is a pity that such a beautiful City as Cincinnatti [sic] should be so polluted by ‘Pork’. Walk through the City & you see at every step ‘Pork House’—‘Pork House’.

1962 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 28 59 He informed the head of the subsistence office in Washington..that he could pack in an unused city porkhouse fifteen million pounds of meat.

2003 Birmingham News (Alabama) (Nexis) 27 June He says there will be..picnic tables set up around what he is calling ‘The Best Little Pork House in Alabama’.

pork king n. a highly successful person or company in the pork trade.

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society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > wealthy > in specific trade

tobacco lord1832

railroad king1849

pork king1880

rum baron1887

lumber baron1888

tobacco baron1961

1880 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 3 Nov. The ‘Pork King’ is a character... He has been a power in pork for many years.

1893 M. H. Elliott Honor 155 Gwendoline O'Shaunessey, the daughter of old O'Shaunessey the Western pork-king.

1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xv. 222 I should like to go off with a president,..or a film or pork king.

2003 MarketWatch (Nexis) 27 Jan. Last week, pork king Smithfield Foods..warned that low hog and weak fresh-meat prices would bring its fiscal third-quarter results in well below expectations.

pork-knocker n. (also porknocker) (in Guyana) a freelance prospector or miner for gold or diamonds.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > prospector > for gold or diamonds

gold-finder1578

fossicker1852

Klondiker1897

sniper1902

pork-knocker1910

1910 M. B. Beebe & C. W. Beebe Our Search for Wilderness vi. 187 The universal Guianian name for this type of independent miner is ‘pork-knocker’, the explanation being that by knocking the rocks to pieces, they find just enough gold to procure the pork upon which they live.

1957 M. Swan Brit. Guiana 202 In the old days when the mining men, the pork-knockers, went up the river they would paddle against currents which an inboard engine can now only just fight.

2003 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 30 Apr. 26 The small-scale miners, or pork-knockers as they call themselves, are able to penetrate deep into the jungles, by boat and then on foot.

pork-knocking n. (in Guyana) the action of freelance prospecting or mining for gold or diamonds.

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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > prospecting > types of prospecting for gold, diamonds, or opal

stampede1846

river digging1850

pocket mining1872

potholing1885

sniping1897

Klondiking1900

specking1901

pork-knocking1965

1965 ‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest vii. 95 Winston, man, you better had go back to your pork-knocking.

1974 H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World xii. 221 We had some Brazilian natives with us... They..had come over for the diamond prospecting but, since the water had been too high for porknocking, they had agreed to work for us instead.

pork packer n. a person who packs pork for transportation and sale; (a person who runs) a pork packing business.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > one who packs pork

pork packer1835

1835 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 1 June 5/2 Most of our pork packers are men of wealth.

1949 Boston Sunday Globe 26 June (Fiction Mag.) 2/1 These corporations were principally distillers, manufacturers of tobacco, and, especially, beef and pork packers.

1986 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 22 Jan. 3 It would keep the workers at the top of the current wage-scale for pork packers.

2004 Independent (Nexis) 26 Oct. Did you know that the original Uncle Sam was a New York pork-packer who supplied US troops in the war of 1812?

pork packing n. the action or process of packing pork.

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1834 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 9 Sept. 2 The business of pork packing is carried on at Cincinnati.

1999 T. Lang in G. Tansey & J. D'Silva Meat Business xii. 128 Just four companies have 87 per cent of the beef packing market, 60 per cent of pork packing, 45 per cent of broilers and 30 per cent of eggs.

pork pit n. an area of a produce exchange in which dealings in pork take place.

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1891 Davenport (Iowa) Morning Tribune 4 Aug. Not content with transferring the business formerly done in the pork pit to his office, it is said that Mr. Armour intends so to manipulate the grain market.

1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Mar. d12/5 Cattle prices also increased, partly on sympathetic support from the pork pits.

2000 Investor's Business Daily (Nexis) 13 Apr. 19 The supply figure spurred a belly-buying fury in the pork pits Wednesday morning.

pork scratchings n. British small crisp pieces of dried pork crackling, eaten as a savoury snack; also in singular; cf. scratching n.¹

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1981 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 1st Ser. Episode 4. 37 Get us a packet of pork scratchings would you.

1987 Spectator 19 Sept. 55/1 Have a pork scratching.

2004 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 26 May 43 His knowledge of such animals [sc. pigs] is limited to what he has read on the back of a pork scratchings packet.

pork sword n. coarse slang the penis.

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1950 K. Amis Let. 27 Nov. (2000) 248 Give it to her there man go on get going make with the old pork sword.

1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 83 Playing hide the pork sword with chicks who don't shave under their armpits is bloody terrible.

pork tapeworm n. the tapeworm Taenia solium which causes both cysticercosis and adult tapeworm infestation in humans and for which the pig is the intermediate host.

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1866 T. C. Cobbold Tapeworms 11 (heading) The armed, or pork tapeworm... (Tænia solium).

1938 Sci. Monthly Nov. 406 Ordinarily the pork tapeworm is from about two and one half to five feet long, but it may attain, at times, a length of about 25 feet.

2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health ii. 404 Pork tapeworm infections are much less common than beef and often go unnoticed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pork
释义	porkn.¹ Brit. /pɔːk/, U.S. /pɔrk/ Forms: Middle English poorke, Middle English porc, Middle English–1500s poork, Middle English–1700s porke, Middle English– pork, 1500s porcke, 1500s pourke, 1600s–1700s porck, 1900s– po'k (U.S. regional); Scottish pre-1700 porc, pre-1700 porck, pre-1700 1700s– pork, 1800s– purk (north-eastern). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French porc. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman porc, pork, porck, porke and Old French, Middle French, French porc domestic pig (1100), pork (1155), wild boar (1170), term of abuse for a dirty person (1226 in an isolated attestation; subsequently from 1640), term of abuse for a greedy or fat person (1690) < classical Latin porcus pig, especially male pig < the same Indo-European base as farrow n. Compare Old Occitan porc (11th cent.; Occitan pòrc), Catalan porc (1066), Spanish puerco wild boar, domestic pig (1044), Portuguese porco (908), Italian porco pig (1231–62), coarse, vulgar person (a1321).Earlier currency is perhaps implied in the surname Galfridus le Porkuiller (1215), although the identity of the second element is uncertain (perhaps compare filler n.¹). 1. a. The flesh of a pig used as food, esp. when uncured. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] swine flesheOE porkc1300 baconc1330 brawn1377 pig1381 pork flesh?a1425 boara1475 gricea1475 hog flesh1528 hog meat1573 grunting-peck1699 hog1744 pigmeat1754 c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) 344 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 472 (MED) Huy nomen with heom..porc, motoun, and beof. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 265^v Boores [meat] is more hard & druye..þan tame pork [L. porcina domestica]. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 409 Poork, flesche, suilla. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. Cvij Take a quantyte of poorke and ony [= honey] and butter. 1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 27^v Aboue all kyndes of fleshe in nouryshyng the body, Galene most commendeth porke. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. iv. 9/1 Porke is there a very costly dish. 1612 W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia iii. 20 in J. Smith Map of Virginia To make a feast or two with bisket, pork, beefe, fish, and oile, to relish our mouthes. 1665 R. May Accomplisht Cook 167 To carbonado a Rack of Pork. 1708 W. King Art of Cookery 2 Yet no Man lards his Pork with Orange-Peel, Or garnishes his Lamb with Spitch-cock-Eel. 1748 E. Darwin Let. in W. S. Dallas tr. E. Krause Life (1879) 9 We affirm Porck not only to be flesh but a devillish Sort of flesh. 1785 G. Washington Diaries II. 429 Began to put up my Hogs at the different Plantations, to fatten for Porke. 1821 I. Thomas Diary (1909) II. 76 Sent Legs of Pork to be baconed. 1895 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1894 9 It is the demand for wheat, the demand for beef, the demand for pork..which confers a money value upon them in markets. 1907 St. Nicholas Oct. 1136/2 Certain kinds of pork are called ‘Beechnut’, as if that name signifies especially ‘good eating’. 1968 M. Pyke Food & Society ii. 11 The finding of pig bones in prehistoric and early historic sites..is evidence that pork was esteemed as a nutritious food from the earliest times. 1990 California Apr. 46/3 Among the main courses, the tenderloin of pork is actually tender..but the rabbit and venison receive mixed reviews. b. U.S. slang. Government funds or benefits dispensed by politicians in order to gain favour with patrons or constituents. See pork barrel n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > funds assigned on basis of political patronage pork1879 barrel1884 1862 in D. W. Mitchell Ten Yrs. in U.S. xv. 271 To put myself in a position in which every wretch entitled to a vote would feel himself privileged to hold me under special obligations, would be giving rather too much pork for a shilling.] 1879 Congress. Rec. 28 Feb. 2131/1 St. Louis is going to have some of the ‘pork’ indirectly; but it will not do any good. 1916 N.Y. Evening Post 12 May 8/2 ‘Pork’ has hitherto stood for just one process, the parcelling out of Federal moneys for court houses, post offices, and waterways, not by States, but by Congressional districts. 1949 Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald 19 July 4/3 That difference of more than $54,000,000 includes a lot of pork for individual senators. 1962 Economist 20 Oct. 252/1 Pork is the generic name for the tasty morsels of federal spending..which a member of congress likes to bring back to his constituents. 1992 Economist 31 Oct. 120/3 Congressional pork and other forms of influence are not so much direct bribes to voters as appeals to the political action committees (PACs) that fork out money to pay for advertising campaigns. 2005 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 15 Jan. a4 The PRI and the leftist..PRD..adopted a federal budget full of pork to benefit state governments under their control. c. Military slang. pork and beans n. [after the superficial resemblance in pronunciation to Portuguese n.] (a nickname for) Portuguese soldiers serving in the First World War (1914–18). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > Portuguese pork and beans1917 1917 E. Miller Camps, Tramps & Trenches (1939) 85 The Portuguese or ‘Pork and Cheese’ camp [at Sling].] 1917 Times 29 June 5/1 There were some who, at first, were disposed to call them ‘Pork-and-beans’, as having a general resemblance to the name Portuguese. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 228 Pork and beans, a nickname for the Portuguese troops serving on the Western Front. 1992 A. D. Harvey Collision of Empires vi. 237 Representations had to be made at the highest official levels to prohibit British troops from referring to their new allies as ‘Pork and Beans’. d. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). The penis. Cf. pork sword n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis weapona1000 tarsec1000 pintleOE cock?c1335 pillicock?c1335 yard1379 arrowa1382 looma1400 vergea1400 instrumentc1405 fidcocka1475 privya1500 virile member (or yard)?1541 prickc1555 tool1563 pillock1568 penis1578 codpiece1584 needle1592 bauble1593 dildo1597 nag1598 virility1598 ferret1599 rubigo?a1600 Jack1604 mentula1605 virge1608 prependent1610 flute1611 other thing1628 engine1634 manhood1640 cod1650 quillity1653 rammer1653 runnion1655 pego1663 sex1664 propagator1670 membrum virile1672 nervea1680 whore-pipe1684 Roger1689 pudding1693 handle?1731 machine1749 shaft1772 jock1790 poker1811 dickyc1815 Johnny?1833 organ1833 intromittent apparatus1836 root1846 Johnson1863 Peter1870 John Henry1874 dickc1890 dingusc1890 John Thomasc1890 old fellowc1890 Aaron's rod1891 dingle-dangle1893 middle leg1896 mole1896 pisser1896 micky1898 baby-maker1902 old man1902 pecker1902 pizzle1902 willy1905 ding-dong1906 mickey1909 pencil1916 dingbatc1920 plonkerc1920 Johna1922 whangera1922 knob1922 tube1922 ding1926 pee-pee1927 prong1927 pud1927 hose1928 whang1928 dong1930 putz1934 porkc1935 wiener1935 weenie1939 length1949 tadger1949 winkle1951 dinger1953 winky1954 dork1961 virilia1962 rig1964 wee-wee1964 Percy1965 meat tool1966 chopper1967 schlong1967 swipe1967 chode1968 trouser snake1968 ding-a-ling1969 dipstick1970 tonk1970 noonies1972 salami1977 monkey1978 langer1983 wanker1987 c1935 in R. G. Holt Little ‘Dirty’ Comics (1971) 90 Ther creck a'tween yer thighs meks me ol' po'k rise. 1968 ‘A. D'Arcangelo’ Homosexual Handbk. 217 She will guard you like crazy against men, but leave the other coast clear, enabling you to slip the pork to one of her girl friends behind her back. 1999 M. Burgess Bloodtide (2001) viii. 29 How much nicer if I liked him sticking his pork where it wasn't wanted. 2. a. A pig. Also figurative. Now rare. In later use historical and regional (chiefly Irish English (northern)).Recorded earliest in pork flesh n.In quots. 1528 and 1598 distinguished from other types of pig. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] swineOE hogOE grice?c1225 pig?a1425 pork?a1425 grunterc1440 gussie15.. grunting-cheat1567 snorter1601 sow's-baby1699 grumphie1786 piggy-wig1870 turf-hog1880 troughster1892 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > adult pork?a1425 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 144 Leue þai recent fruytez..crude porc [?c1425 Paris swynes; L. porcinas] flesh, & fish. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 3121 (MED) Pouerall and pastorelles passede on aftyre With porkes to pasture at the price ȝates. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. Fj Porkes of a yere or .ij. olde are better than yonge pygges. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 3837 Polidarius was pluccid as a porke fat. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 314 There were brought to the slaughter house..34. Porkes iij.s. viij.d. the peece, 91. Pigs vj.d. the peece. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. viii. 69 Sawsages, mingling the brawnes of Peacocks, with Porks flesh. 1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 83 Very large like Calves,..and as fat as Porks. 1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 214 A Pestilential Sow, a meazeled Pork, On the foundation has been long at work. 1799 R. Southey Pig in Morning Post & Gazetteer 24 May 2/4 Woe to the young posterity of pork, Their enemy is at hand.] 1887 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices V. 343 Hogs and porks, the word appearing to be used indifferently, are occasionally found. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 259/2 Pork, a pig. b. derogatory. A coarse, uncultured, or stupid person; (also) a fat person. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] > uncultured person runt1602 home-bred1609 pork1645 Huna1744 savage1762 heathen1817 Philistine1825 stringy-bark1833 roughneck1834 yahoo1861 yapc1894 lowbrow1901 meatball1937 primitive1967 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 12 I mean not to dispute Philosophy with this Pork, who never read any. 1862 W. D. Howells Let. 13 June in Sel. Lett. (1979) I. 117 He was..the most outrageous old pork I ever saw. 1933 J. T. Farrell Gas-house McGinty 113 The big pork couldn't make the grade. 1974 R. Price Wanderers 200 Buddy was a sap and a real pork to blow it all on the first roll. 2005 Ayr (Austral.) Advocate (Nexis) 21 Jan. (Sport section) 15 Good to see the Old Pork is diversifying his talents—perhaps they could use him as the ball with that shape. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. pork blubber n. ΚΠ 1804 A. Wilson Let. 24 Dec. in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) I. 114 We..ate some pork-blubber and bread. 1999 J. Y. Shakoor Civil Rights Childhood xi. 172 I just barely made it behind long-legged Bernice, and slammed the handmade screen door into the snout of eight hundred pounds of pork blubber. pork fat n. ΚΠ 1710 tr. P. Dionis Course Chirurg. Operations 455 He is to make use of stronger Remedies, as Sorrel, Roots of Lillies and Marshmallows, Leaven and Pigeon's Dung, all of them boil'd in Pork Fat. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xix. 193 Hung a dripping slab of pork-fat over their lamp-wick. 1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Oct. a14/6 Detainees were forced to crawl through colonies of red ants, sometimes after pork fat had been rubbed into their skin. pork griskin n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > cuts or parts pig's footc1475 hog's foot1561 hog's cheek1573 bald-rib1598 spring1598 list1623 griskin1699 chine1712 pork griskin1725 rearing1736 pork chop?1752 hand1794 faggot1815 hog round1819 sweet-bone1826 butt1845 pig trotter1851 pork belly1863 Hodge1879 fore-end1906 fore-hock1923 1725 P. Tisanus Epist. to G. Cheyne 32 If a nice Stomach loaths the Sight of a Beef-Stake, or Pork-Griskin, must its Owner be starv'd? 1879 J. R. Planché Island of Jewels ii. i. 32 Should it prove that this King Stood in his shoes but four feet of pork griskin. 1997 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 19 Dec. 26 Rub cloves of garlic into the pork Griskins. Place in a large pot and cover with water. pork sausage n. ΚΠ 1757 London Mag. 131/2 He who eats a pork sausage or a rabbit, would have been stoned to death. 1808 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1947) VIII. 728 Pork Sausage. 1905 E. Tuite Dishes for All Seasons 90 Scald a pound of pork sausages and remove the skin. 2003 Chile Pepper Feb. 25/1 We..happened upon a market where the speciality was chaurice, a seasoned pork sausage stuffed into a hog casing. pork shop n. ΚΠ 1769 I. Bickerstaff Dr. Last i. i. 23 A tallow chandler's widow, that lodg'd at the pork shop in Fetter-lane. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. vi. 182 That fellow is only fit for fly-flapper at a pork shop! 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 153 Resp girl (R. C.) wishes to hear of post in fruit or pork shop. 2004 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 24 Sept. t3 We stop..at Satriale's, the pork shop where Tony and his crew often meet. pork steak n. ΚΠ 1739 S. Harrison House-keeper's Pocket-bk. (ed. 2) 22 Rabbets cut in Pieces, with some fat Pork Steaks season'd in a Pye. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 305 He always..eats a supper off pork steaks, nearly raw. 1990 T. Ruprecht Toronto's Many Faces 364 Menu items include..tho soup (shrimp and barbecue pork), and grilled pork steak. pork trade n. ΚΠ 1770 A. Spiers Memorial for Mess. A. Spiers, A. Blackburn, & A. Syme 37 By dealing in a pork-trade, he could be more serviceable to his creditors than by remitting the effects themselves. 1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner 13 Here, too, is modest beauty from Ohio (papa in the pork trade). 1994 Meat Trade Jrnl. 5 May 20/1 The pork trade is patchy across the country. b. Objective. pork curer n. ΚΠ 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 232 Pork-curers buy from farmers and dealers in the carcass. 1984 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 12 Feb. 14 The pig crisis does not seem to benefit the pork curers. pork dealer n. ΚΠ 1766 Liverpool Directory 20 Linaker and Brownley, pork dealers, &c. in tythbarn street. 1817 in Times 31 Dec. 2/3 T. Gibbon, Stretford, Lancashire, pork-dealer. 1996 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 8 Feb. 12 Danish and U.S. pork dealers lost their competitive edge as a result of the standard price hike. pork pickling n. ΚΠ 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 May 3/2 A pork-pickling establishment..has lately been opened there. 1991 C. A. Wilson Waste not; want Not Index 159 Pork pickling recipe. pork raiser n. ΚΠ 1839 Jrnl. Indiana Ho. Representatives 8 Jan. 231 The scarcity..is likely to prove so mischievous to the interests of our pork raisers and dealers. 1938 Econ. Geogr. 14 36/1 (caption) The British market has been extremely profitable for Danish pork raisers. 2001 Star-Gaz. (Elmira, N.Y.) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 7 c Beef or pork-raisers are reluctant to slaughter an animal unless all of the meat can be sold. pork raising n. ΚΠ 1846 Comercial Rev. June 476 (heading) Pork raising in the West. 1872 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1871 9 354 He had said that pork raising stood pre~eminent as a branch of stock raising in our State. 1987 Acad. of Managem. Rev. 10 628/1 Sears started an Agricultural Foundation..to upgrade the quality of pork raising among farmers. C2. porkburger n. a hamburger made from pork. ΚΠ 1939 Amer. Speech 14 154/2 Porkburger, ground pork, in other words, sausage! 1962 Times 6 Feb. 7/2 (advt.) The following new products have recently been added to the Findus range: fish cakes,..porkburgers, steak and kidneyburgers. 2004 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 2 July 3 d See the..parade and talent show, eat free barbecue and porkburgers..before everyone meets back up for fireworks. pork butcher n. (a) a person who slaughters pigs for sale as meat; (b) a shopkeeper who sells pork. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killer of animals > [noun] slaughterman1389 dog-killer1592 slaughterer1648 buffer1699 pork butcher1763 knacker1812 serpenticide1817 vulpicide1826 piggicide1837 canicide1852 ursicidea1861 birdicide1866 insecticide1866 horse-knacker1937 pigeoneer1944 piscicide1953 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of meat butchera1325 tripe-seller1598 tripe-man1621 tripe-monger1621 turtler1740 porkman1749 rôtisseur1751 pork butcher1763 carcass-butcher1773 horse butcher1815 tripe-dresser1868 charcutier1894 meat-man1910 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > butchery > butcher fleshmongerc1000 butchera1325 flesh-hewer1335 flesher1369 macegreffa1450 butcher man1481 kill-crow1593 pennyman1610 bovicide1678 pork butcher1763 carcass-butcher1773 butcheress1802 ox-feller1856 butchy1867 legger1876 charcutier1894 eviscerator1961 kill-cow- 1763 Beauties of all Mag. Sel. II. 389/2 Bacon enough I was sure of, because one of my wife's best friends was a pork butcher. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lxiii. 182 The pork-butchers are commonly Jews. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 57 The porkbutcher snapped two sheets from the pile, wrapped up her prime sausages and made a red grimace. 1991 Times 19 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 33/2 The guv'nor is a former pork butcher who has clearly not lost his touch. pork butchering n. the action of slaughtering pigs for sale as meat. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > foodstuffs victuallership1450 greengrocery1749 pork butchering1816 costermongering1822 costermongery1823 cheesemongering1826 costering1851 pork butchery1852 fishmongering1862 grocery1885 1816 Times 27 Nov. 1/3 Wanted,..a steady single man of good character, who has a perfect knowledge of the pork butchering business. 1873 Harper's Mag. July 312/1 The society's manufacturing departments..comprising tobacco manufacturing; bread, biscuit and cake baking, the industries of pork butchering, [etc.]. 1986 G. R. Elton Parl. of Eng. 1559–81 iv. 78 The butchers twice ran into lack of cooperation when they tried to get prices reduced and pork-butchering better controlled. pork butchery n. the action or process of slaughtering pigs for sale as meat; cuts of pork meat; (also) a shop or other premises where pigs are slaughtered or pork is sold. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > foodstuffs victuallership1450 greengrocery1749 pork butchering1816 costermongering1822 costermongery1823 cheesemongering1826 costering1851 pork butchery1852 fishmongering1862 grocery1885 1852 tr. V. Hugo Crime of Dec. 2nd in U.S. Democratic Rev. Oct. 379/1 One of the officers was heard to say..‘Ceci va tourner à la charcuterie!’ (This will become a pork-butchery). 1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Oct. 673/1 [They] set a rabbinical winkle-seller on the road to fortune which leads to pork-butchery. 2004 Independent (Nexis) 1 May A new shop..specialises in pork butchery and charcuterie. pork butt n. U.S. a large cut of meat taken from the upper shoulder of a pig; cf. butt n.⁶ 5. ΚΠ 1845 Milwaukie (Wisconsin Territory) Daily Sentinel 3 May (advt.) Cheap for cash—Whiskey, dried Apples, do Peaches, Mess Pork, Pork Butts, Superfine Flour by the barrel. 1915 Hotel Monthly Oct. 79/2 The pork butts are of two classes, the Boston butts and the lean butts. 2011 Time Out N.Y. 23 June 18/3 For an extra $10 each..another main, like the rich, tender pork butt. pork eater n. (a) a person who eats pork; (b) Canadian a person engaged on the trade route by canoe between Montreal and Grand Portage, and characterized as eating pork as opposed to the preserved meats eaten by those who travelled the more difficult interior routes; (also) any canoeist, esp. one who is inexperienced (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > paddler of canoe canoeman1681 paddler1770 pork eater1793 kayaker1856 kayak man1864 canoeist1866 canoer1866 kayakist1946 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. v. 22 If we grow all to be pork eaters, we shall not shortly haue a rasher on the coles for mony. View more context for this quotation 1705 (title) A pill for pork eaters, or A Scots lancet for an English swelling. 1793 J. MacDonell Diary 5 July in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 94 Between two and three hundred yards to the East of the N.W. Fort beyond the Pork eaters camp is the spot Mess^rs David and Peter Grant have selected to build upon. 1859 P. Kane Wanderings of Artist 34 The men who usually work this brigade of [Hudson Bay Company] canoes are hired at Lachine, and are called by the uncouth names of mangeurs du lard, or pork-eaters. 1953 Beaver Dec. 50 The provisions for the Crew were Pork & Biscuits; from which circumstance the young recruits were called ‘Pork Eaters’ to distinguish them from the old Winterers, who feed chiefly on ‘Pemican’. 2004 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 22 Dec. 3 Most pork eaters would not be aware of the horrifying conditions in which the animals were kept. porkfish n. any of various grunts (family Haemulidae) of the western Atlantic; (now) spec. Anisotremus virginicus, which has longitudinal yellow stripes, yellow fins, and two thick black bars on the head and body. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun] mudfish1502 sprat1552 frogfish1598 rockfish1605 yellowtaila1622 sleeper1668 picarel1688 hogfish1735 porkfish1735 sucker1753 zebrafish1771 yellowbelly1775 white steenbras1801 stone-toter1817 stargazer1842 warehou1848 baardman1853 goatfish1864 holostome1864 spot snapper1876 suck-fish1876 mademoiselle1882 queenfish1883 cigar-fish1884 emperor fish1884 rock beauty1885 oilfish1896 aholehole1897 berrugate1898 Photoblepharon1902 sweet-lip1934 rabbitfish1941 redbait1960 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Pomadysidae (grunts) > member of porgy1725 porkfish1735 margate1933 pinkie1948 1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 315 The Pork-Fish. The Bahamians esteem this a good Fish. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 81 The Norfolk Hog-fish, Pomodasys fulvomaculatus,..is the..‘Pork-fish’ and ‘Whiting’ at Key West. 1933 W. H. Chute Guide John G. Shedd Aquarium 108 Anisotremus virginicus—Porkfish. This strikingly colored fish is abundant on the Florida coast. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xv. 255/1 Most grunts form shoals as juveniles; some, such as the porkfish, Anisotremus.., continue to shoal as adults. pork ham n. the cooked ham of a pig; (also) a joint of this. ΚΠ 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 52 Any Pork Ham does for this, that is well made. 1851 J. F. W. Johnston Notes N. Amer. iii. 73 Pork ham was a frequent relish to our tea-dinners and tea-teas in this part of the world. 1914 J. F. Snell Elem. Househ. Chem. xxxix. 215 The average pork ham yields about 17 Calories from protein to 83 from fat, and the average side of pork only 7 Calories from protein out of every 100. 2005 Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser (Nexis) 31 Aug. d1 Cumuze wouldn't give away his father's secret basting sauce recipe, but he agreed to talk about the importance of basting the pork hams. pork hog n. = porker n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > fattened or intended for slaughter swine hog1381 pork hoga1470 porker?a1568 baconer1741 bacon-pig1834 porket1837 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > male > castrated or hog > fattened pork hoga1470 bacon-hog?a1500 porker?a1568 porket1837 a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 295 As fatte..as a porke hog. 1768 A. Young Farmer's Lett. (ed. 2) 350 One hundred and forty-six thousand, nine hundred and thirty pork hogs of which I reckon 80,000 fatted at London. 1848 Commerc. Rev. South & West Aug. 105 It is computed that about 1,000 head of pork hogs were sold during the winter. 1999 Assoc. Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 8 Dec. Yearly, the Goosemobile carries the products of 15 to 18 pork hogs, 15 to 18 lambs, about three beef cows, [etc.]. pork house n. a warehouse, shop, etc., trading in pork; a restaurant specializing in pork. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in food and drink > in specific foodstuffs > firm or establishment pork house1836 1836 J. D. Davidson Jrnl. Oct. in Jrnl. Southern Hist. 1 (1935) 350 It is a pity that such a beautiful City as Cincinnatti [sic] should be so polluted by ‘Pork’. Walk through the City & you see at every step ‘Pork House’—‘Pork House’. 1962 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 28 59 He informed the head of the subsistence office in Washington..that he could pack in an unused city porkhouse fifteen million pounds of meat. 2003 Birmingham News (Alabama) (Nexis) 27 June He says there will be..picnic tables set up around what he is calling ‘The Best Little Pork House in Alabama’. pork king n. a highly successful person or company in the pork trade. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > wealthy > in specific trade tobacco lord1832 railroad king1849 pork king1880 rum baron1887 lumber baron1888 tobacco baron1961 1880 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 3 Nov. The ‘Pork King’ is a character... He has been a power in pork for many years. 1893 M. H. Elliott Honor 155 Gwendoline O'Shaunessey, the daughter of old O'Shaunessey the Western pork-king. 1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xv. 222 I should like to go off with a president,..or a film or pork king. 2003 MarketWatch (Nexis) 27 Jan. Last week, pork king Smithfield Foods..warned that low hog and weak fresh-meat prices would bring its fiscal third-quarter results in well below expectations. pork-knocker n. (also porknocker) (in Guyana) a freelance prospector or miner for gold or diamonds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > prospector > for gold or diamonds gold-finder1578 fossicker1852 Klondiker1897 sniper1902 pork-knocker1910 1910 M. B. Beebe & C. W. Beebe Our Search for Wilderness vi. 187 The universal Guianian name for this type of independent miner is ‘pork-knocker’, the explanation being that by knocking the rocks to pieces, they find just enough gold to procure the pork upon which they live. 1957 M. Swan Brit. Guiana 202 In the old days when the mining men, the pork-knockers, went up the river they would paddle against currents which an inboard engine can now only just fight. 2003 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 30 Apr. 26 The small-scale miners, or pork-knockers as they call themselves, are able to penetrate deep into the jungles, by boat and then on foot. pork-knocking n. (in Guyana) the action of freelance prospecting or mining for gold or diamonds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > prospecting > types of prospecting for gold, diamonds, or opal stampede1846 river digging1850 pocket mining1872 potholing1885 sniping1897 Klondiking1900 specking1901 pork-knocking1965 1965 ‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest vii. 95 Winston, man, you better had go back to your pork-knocking. 1974 H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World xii. 221 We had some Brazilian natives with us... They..had come over for the diamond prospecting but, since the water had been too high for porknocking, they had agreed to work for us instead. pork packer n. a person who packs pork for transportation and sale; (a person who runs) a pork packing business. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > one who packs pork pork packer1835 1835 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 1 June 5/2 Most of our pork packers are men of wealth. 1949 Boston Sunday Globe 26 June (Fiction Mag.) 2/1 These corporations were principally distillers, manufacturers of tobacco, and, especially, beef and pork packers. 1986 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 22 Jan. 3 It would keep the workers at the top of the current wage-scale for pork packers. 2004 Independent (Nexis) 26 Oct. Did you know that the original Uncle Sam was a New York pork-packer who supplied US troops in the war of 1812? pork packing n. the action or process of packing pork. ΚΠ 1834 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 9 Sept. 2 The business of pork packing is carried on at Cincinnati. 1999 T. Lang in G. Tansey & J. D'Silva Meat Business xii. 128 Just four companies have 87 per cent of the beef packing market, 60 per cent of pork packing, 45 per cent of broilers and 30 per cent of eggs. pork pit n. an area of a produce exchange in which dealings in pork take place. ΚΠ 1891 Davenport (Iowa) Morning Tribune 4 Aug. Not content with transferring the business formerly done in the pork pit to his office, it is said that Mr. Armour intends so to manipulate the grain market. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Mar. d12/5 Cattle prices also increased, partly on sympathetic support from the pork pits. 2000 Investor's Business Daily (Nexis) 13 Apr. 19 The supply figure spurred a belly-buying fury in the pork pits Wednesday morning. pork scratchings n. British small crisp pieces of dried pork crackling, eaten as a savoury snack; also in singular; cf. scratching n.¹ ΚΠ 1981 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 1st Ser. Episode 4. 37 Get us a packet of pork scratchings would you. 1987 Spectator 19 Sept. 55/1 Have a pork scratching. 2004 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 26 May 43 His knowledge of such animals [sc. pigs] is limited to what he has read on the back of a pork scratchings packet. pork sword n. coarse slang the penis. ΚΠ 1950 K. Amis Let. 27 Nov. (2000) 248 Give it to her there man go on get going make with the old pork sword. 1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 83 Playing hide the pork sword with chicks who don't shave under their armpits is bloody terrible. pork tapeworm n. the tapeworm Taenia solium which causes both cysticercosis and adult tapeworm infestation in humans and for which the pig is the intermediate host. ΚΠ 1866 T. C. Cobbold Tapeworms 11 (heading) The armed, or pork tapeworm... (Tænia solium). 1938 Sci. Monthly Nov. 406 Ordinarily the pork tapeworm is from about two and one half to five feet long, but it may attain, at times, a length of about 25 feet. 2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health ii. 404 Pork tapeworm infections are much less common than beef and often go unnoticed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). porkv. Brit. /pɔːk/, U.S. /pɔrk/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pork n.¹ Etymology: < pork n.¹ 1. transitive. English regional. To fatten (a pig) for eating as pork. Also with away. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > feed or fatten pigs brawn1655 swilla1722 to send hogs a shackling1790 pork1877 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham , Lincs. 196/2 Pork, to fatten pigs for pork. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Pork away I s'pose you'll pork away thick lot o' little pigs. 2. colloquial (originally U.S.). a. intransitive. to pork up: to gain weight. ΚΠ 1967 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 8 Sept. 14/8 Marcello Mastroianni (who has porked up a bit lately..) turned up at the King's Club. 1993 S. King Dolores Claiborne 44 She'd porked up a lot, you see—went from a hundred and thirty or so in the early sixties to a hundred and ninety. 2002 Times (Nexis) 27 Jan. (Features section) 3 In Circle of Friends she porked up to play a mildly lardy wench. b. intransitive. to pork out: to eat gluttonously, gorge oneself (on). Cf. pig v. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat more than usual or overeat to pig out1978 to pork out1979 1979 Barnard Bull. (Barnard Coll., Columbia Univ., N.Y.) 15/1 (advt.) Porking out on cookie sales at the campus grocery. 1985 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 29 Nov. When people are through porking out, that's when we start getting the paramedic calls. 1999 J. Cope Repossessed 20 We porked out on home-made chocolate chip cookies and sweet apple pies. 3. slang (originally U.S.). a. intransitive. To engage in sexual intercourse. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse playOE to do (also work) one's kindc1225 bedc1315 couple1362 gendera1382 to go togetherc1390 to come togethera1398 meddlea1398 felterc1400 companya1425 swivec1440 japea1450 mellc1450 to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474 engender1483 fuck?a1513 conversec1540 jostlec1540 confederate1557 coeate1576 jumble1582 mate1589 do1594 conjoin1597 grind1598 consortc1600 pair1603 to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608 commix1610 cock1611 nibble1611 wap1611 bolstera1616 incorporate1622 truck1622 subagitate1623 occupya1626 minglec1630 copulate1632 fere1632 rut1637 joust1639 fanfreluche1653 carnalize1703 screw1725 pump1730 correspond1756 shag1770 hump1785 conjugate1790 diddle1879 to get some1889 fuckeec1890 jig-a-jig1896 perform1902 rabbit1919 jazz1920 sex1921 root1922 yentz1923 to make love1927 rock1931 mollock1932 to make (beautiful) music (together)1936 sleep1936 bang1937 lumber1938 to hop into bed (with)1951 to make out1951 ball1955 score1960 trick1965 to have it away1966 to roll in the hay1966 to get down1967 poontang1968 pork1968 shtup1969 shack1976 bonk1984 boink1985 1968 C. F. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study (typescript, Brown Univ.) Pork, have sexual intercourse. 1972 G. Lucas et al. Amer. Graffiti (film script) 76 They're porking in the weeds. 1997 Esquire Oct. 27/1 There was a time..when the president could pork with impunity without anyone making a federal case out of it. 2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 4 May Me and your bruv have been porking for months. b. transitive. Of a man: to engage in sexual intercourse with. Cf. pork n.¹ 1d. ΚΠ 1978 C. Miller National Lampoon's Animal House (screenplay) 11 Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond? 1984 E. Jong Parachutes & Kisses vi. 98 That did not mean he did not have other problems—far worse than the dark compulsion to pork males. 2002 Total Film Mar. 56/1 Getting in lots of brawls, swashing buckles and porking chambermaids. 4. intransitive. U.S. Politics. To load (a federal spending bill, etc.) with (esp. unnecessary) items intended to direct funds to favoured districts or causes; cf. pork n.¹ 1b. Chiefly with up. ΚΠ 1987 Congress. Q. Weekly Rep. 24 Oct. 2591/3 I don't blame people for porking if there's an opportunity to pork. 1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel (Electronic ed.) 16 Mar. 9 a Instead of ‘porking up’ the budget bill with hundreds of controversial issues and special-interest favors, they actually set most of those changes aside for separate action. 2002 BusinessWeek 23 Dec. 41/1 If the cardinals, known for porking up pet projects, don't hold the line on discretionary spending in 2003, the Right will go after them. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). porkint.n.² Brit. /pɔːk/, U.S. /pɔrk/ Forms: 1600s porke, 1700s 1900s– pork. Also reduplicated. Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative of the call of a raven. Compare earlier pork-porking adj. In later use British regional and rare. Representing the call of the raven. Cf. morepork n. Also as noun. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus corax (raven) > sound made by qualma1425 croak1573 pork1640 porking1655 1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden iv. iv Harke, the Ravens cry porke for him and yet he dyes not. 1715 B. Griffin Love in Sack ii. i. 44 I heard the Ravens last night cry Pork, Pork, Pork. 1796 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (1963) 267 Pork, to cry pork; to give intelligence to the undertaker of a funeral: metaphor borrowed from the raven, whose note sounds like the word pork.] 1907 Essex Rev. 14 110 The peculiar hoarse cry of the raven... Its ‘pork, pork’ would certainly distinguish the bird. 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