porkmann.
/ˈpɔːkmən/, U.S. /ˈpɔrkmən/ A dealer 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
saltera1000
oilman1275
oysterman1305
pepperer1309
butchera1325
mealman1527
pepper mana1661
butter factor1696
porkman1749
flour-factor1815
macaroni dealer1854
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
1749 Copy of Poll for Citizen of Westm. 9 Matthew Lyott Hog Lane Porkman.
1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 31 Pork-Men busy in their Shops and Cellars.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. v. 19 The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat.
1863 All Year Round 1 Aug. 541/1 One dejected pork-man who kept a shop.
1939 Times 8 May 10/4 W. Colledge and Sons, Limited, porkmen, Chesterfield.
1967 Times 18 July 2/4 As if the Federation of Pork Butchers and Porkmen had collaborated with the Vegetarian Society in a glossy, illustrated book.
1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 1 Aug. (headline) Pork men hit ban removal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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