porkyadjective
uk/ˈpɔː.ki/us/ˈpɔːr.ki/informal disapprovingfat:
He's been looking a bit porky since he gave up smoking.
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Animal physiology: fat or well-built
- ample
- baby fat
- beefy
- blubber
- broad in the beam idiom
- buxom
- chubby
- dumpy
- fatness
- fatten sb/sth up
- fatty
- heavyset
- husky
- meaty
- middle-age spread
- obesity
- pudgy
- puppy fat
- rotund
- well built
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porkynoun [ C usually plural ]
uk/ˈpɔː.ki/us/ˈpɔːr.ki/also pork pie UK humorous slanga lie:
Have you been telling porkies again?
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Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- lie
- make sth up
- perjury
- polygraph
- pork pie
- post-factual
- post-truth
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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