porky1
/ˈpɔːki
/adjective (porkier, porkiest)
1 informal (Of a person or part of their body) fleshy or fat: he bent his squat, porky frame over the rail of the bed...
- Opposite me, a porky man devoured his three double cheeseburgers in a panic.
- He must have thought that the music teacher was porky himself to have made the association in the first place.
- The health warnings before you start each tape indicate real fears of porky viewers overdoing it.
2Of or resembling pork: meaty rashers with a mild porky aroma
noun (plural porkies)
(also porky-pie) British rhyming slang A lie: you’ve been telling porkies...
- Slowly but surely it becomes easier and infinitely more desirable to tell and to live the truth than to indulge in porky-pies.
- Women, its findings suggest, are likely to be more prolific in the sexual porky-pie stakes than men.
- Solution: get them to study literature so that they appreciate what fiction is actually about: telling the truth by telling porkies.
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porky2
/ˈpɔːki/noun (plural porkies) US informal
A porcupine.