porky

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pɔː(ɹ).ki/, X-SAMPA: /pO:(r).ki/

  Rhymes: -ɔː(r)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.

Synonyms

• (rather fat): chubby, chunky, tubby

Translations

rather fat

• Finnish: tanakka (fi), pullea (fi), pulska (fi)

• Greek: παχύς (el) (pakhís), χοντρός (el) (khontrós)

Etymology 2

Shortened from pork pie

Noun

porky (plural porkies)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.