porky

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English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɔː(ɹ).ki/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ki

Etymology 1

From pork +‎ -y.

Adjective

porky (comparative porkier, superlative porkiest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of pork.
    • 2010, Victor J. Banis, The Blood of Love, page 113:
      It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.
  2. (slang) Rather fat; chubby.
    • 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:
      In front of Lister a small red-haired man, with a porky roll of flesh above his towel-top, was examining a line of girls.
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Noun

porky

  1. (MLE, slang) singulative of pork (“law enforcement”)

Etymology 2

Clipping of pork pie.

Noun

porky (plural porkies)

  1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.
    • 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 203:
      When she turned up at the lab, she gave us a sprawling prepared presentation relying heavily on anecdotal evidence, where it wasn't relying on skewed statistics, unfounded claims and outright porkies.
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang, in the plural) An eye.
    • 2015, Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bred in Wengen:
      Fucked if I know, I never even clapped my little porkies on him before.

Etymology 3

Clipping of porcupine.

Noun

porky (plural porkies)

  1. (informal, childish) A porcupine.
    • 1929, Forest and Stream, page 58:
      The irate Ranger killed thirteen porcupines chewing away on his front porch, and still they came, the salt proving an irresistible lure. In this same district a porky pulled the most impudent stunt of all.
    • 2000, Warner Shedd, “A “Pig,” Perhaps, but Not a Hog: The Porcupine”, in Owls Aren’t Wise & Bats Aren’t Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, page 52:
      Although porcupines lack the ability to throw their quills, they do have the capacity to raise and lower them at will. When threatened, a porky elevates its quills so that it bristles like some sort of mammalian cactus with giant spines.
    • 2021, Ron Paliskis, “The Beasts at the lake”, in Ron: A Coke Alley Boy, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, section “Porcupines”, page 59:
      He snarled, and the porky looked to be running away but swung his tail and put about twenty-five quills in the side of our dog’s face.
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