单词 | porker |
释义 | porkern. 1. a. A young pig raised and fattened for food, esp. one raised for uncured pork rather than bacon; (also more generally) a pig. 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 ?a1568 in H. Hall Antiq. & Curiosities of Exchequer (1891) iv. 93 If Balstons prove no better, we shall haue no porkers, except we feed them with beanes. 1580 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 122 12 porkers and stores 2 10 0. 1643 in Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 227 The Court found for the pl[aintif]f 1560 lb. tob[acco] and a good porker. 1657 P. Heylyn Ecclesia Vindicata 181 They sacrificed a swine or porker, with this solemn form. 1670 J. Smith England's Improvem. Reviv'd 195 Beech-mast is very good feeding for Swine to make them Porkers, and for Bacon. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 201 Then sheep and goats and bristly porkers bled. 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman (Dublin ed.) May ix. 109 Which..will half fat them for Porkers; or prepare them for Baconers. 1792 G. White Jrnl. 9 Feb. (1970) xxv. 399 Tubbed, & pickled a fat porker. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 55 As round and full as a six-weeks' porker. 1884 St. James's Gaz. 11 Dec. 12/1 The stock..consisted of..bacon hogs and porkers. 1911 W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush x. 152 The civilization of the fat porker in the stye is apparently nothing beyond a shallow veneer. 1976 Star (Sheffield) 29 Nov. 6/7 Police tell me there is still no sign of the thief who spirited away 96 porkers worth £2,500 from the estate of the Earl of Harewood. 1990 Mountain Biking UK Summer Special 50/3 The sound of a fully grown porker crunching merrily on a mouthful of acorns is quite something. b. A fat or greedy person or animal; (also, occasionally) a stupid person. Cf. pig n.1 8a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having porknellc1540 porkling1541 porridge belly1580 tallow catch1598 woolsack1598 candle-mine1600 trillibub1600 bauson1607 panguts1617 firkin1630 porker1665 poke pudding1706 pudsy1710 jolluxa1797 fatty1797 fattener1817 rotundity1824 tun-butt1829 stout party1855 pig1858 fatlinga1861 slob1861 bladder of lard1864 butterball1877 lard-bladder1891 jelly-belly1896 tub1897 barrel1909 flop1909 pussy-gut1909 gutbucket1919 Billy Bunter1939 endomorph1940 Fatso1944 slug1959 1665 R. Monsey Scarronides 79 The young man stark mad at this yonker, Dispatch'd from's bow a lusty forker, For he ne'r yet saw such a porker [sc. a young deer]. 1778 G. Huddesford Warley i. 21 Oh accursed Miscreants bound in Chains of gross iniquity, All the Fiends of Hell surrounding! Porkers fat in carnal Stye. 1840 G. Darley Thomas à Becket i. iii. 19 Who put this porker into such a pickle? 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. vii. 106 How am I to fight Hereward and the Danes with forty men-at-arms? Answer me that, thou dunder-headed English porker. 1892 W. James Let. 11 Apr. (1920) I. 318 He is a real Balzackian figure—a regular porker, coarse, vulgar, vain, cunning, mendacious. 1959 Good Food Guide 42 So many restaurants..have been ruined by the expense-account porkers, who neither care what they pay nor know what they eat. 1985 T. O'Brien Nucl. Age ix. 178 Let us discuss obesity. You porkers gross me out. 2000 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 12 Nov. (Body & Soul Suppl.) 32/1 Your kids are turning into porkers and weighing down the national health statistics. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] sword971 brandOE edgeOE ironOE brandelletc1325 garec1330 toolc1386 brank1480 tranchefera1533 flatchet1577 Morglay1582 smiter1591 brandiron1596 Toledo1601 machaira1614 spit-frog1615 toasting-irona1616 spit1642 bilbo1676 porker1688 tilter1688 degen1699 spurtlec1700 toaster1751 toasting-fork1807 slasher1815 cheese-cutter1824 khanda1825 cheese-toaster1858 windlestraw1895 1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia i. i. 5 The Captain whipt his Porker out. 1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia ii. i. 31 Here's a Porker; here's a Tilter: Hah ha. Oh how I could whip a Prigster through the Lungs! 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Crew, Porker, a Sword. ?1750 Apol. Life Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew (ed. 2) 234 Porker, a sword. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?a1568 |
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