porkn.1
/pɔːk/, U.S. /pɔrk/ 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. 265v 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.) 27v 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
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codpiece1584
needle1592
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dildo1597
nag1598
virility1598
ferret1599
rubigo?a1600
Jack1604
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virge1608
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flute1611
other thing1628
engine1634
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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.
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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. 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 Messrs 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.
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porkv.
/pɔːk/, U.S. /pɔrk/ 1. transitive. English regional. To fatten (a pig) for eating as pork. Also with away. rare.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
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to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
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fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
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mate1589
do1594
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fere1632
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fanfreluche1653
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screw1725
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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.
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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.
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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.
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porkint.n.2
/pɔːk/, U.S. /pɔrk/ In later use British regional and rare.
Representing the call of the raven. Cf. morepork n. Also as noun.
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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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