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English
Noun
porksteak (countable and uncountable, plural porksteaks)
- Alternative form of pork steak
1880, G A Sala (London Telegraph), “Travel in England Contrasted with Travel in America”, in The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine, page 150, column 1:There was a choice of beefsteak and porksteak, fried oysters, and ham and eggs, with tea or coffee, Philadelphia ale and lager beer.
1969, William Trevor, Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill's Hotel, The Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 57:‘Will we buy a bit of porksteak for the dinner?’ she’d said, looking at the porksteak on the counter. She had felt the absence of his reply and glanced up quickly: his eyes were fixed on a girl who was cutting cheese, […] ‘Will we have porksteak for the dinner?’ she had said more loudly to him, pulling at his sleeve, and he had turned to her, smiling, saying that porksteak would be lovely.
1980, John B Keane, Stories from a Kerry Fireside, →ISBN:It was universally accepted even amongst the most extreme heretics and schismatics that under no circumstances was the eating of porksteak to be countenanced on Fridays or on any other days of fast and abstinence.