pork

English

Etymology

From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”).

Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken.

Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.

US politics sense is related to pork barrel. The verb is from the black American form of poke.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /poɹk/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹk/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poək/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

Noun

pork (countable and uncountable, plural porks)

2. (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.

   Synonyms: pigflesh, pigmeat, swineflesh, swinemeat, the other white meat

   The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.

3. (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
4. (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution

   Synonyms: bacon, pigs, swine; see also Thesaurus:police

   Meronym: porky (“one member of law enforcement, policeman”)

Derived terms

• barbecued pork
• barbecue pork
• cut of pork
• Dongpo pork
• double-cooked pork
• flossy pork
• Huizeng pork
• I don't eat pork
• jellied pork
• long pork
• lychee pork
• minced pork
• minced pork rice
• moo shi pork
• mu shu pork
• mu xu pork
• National Pork Board
• organic pork
• partially defatted pork fatty tissue
• Peking pork
• pickled pork
• piece of pork
• pig upon pork
• pork and beans
• pork bacon
• pork ball
• pork-barrel
• pork barrel
• pork barrelling
• pork-barrelling
• pork-based
• pork belly
• pork blood
• pork blood soup
• pork bouillon
• porkbuster
• pork butcher
• pork butt
• pork cheek
• pork cheese
• pork chop
• pork chop island
• pork consumption
• pork-containing
• pork cutlet
• pork cycle
• pork dripping
• pork ear
• pork-eater
• pork-eating
• porker
• pork escalope
• pork fat
• pork fillet
• porkfish
• pork floss
• pork goulash
• pork hedgehog
• pork hock
• porking
• pork insulin
• pork jelly
• pork jowl
• pork kebab
• pork kidney
• pork knocker
• pork-knocker
• pork knuckle
• pork liver
• pork loin
• pork meat
• pork meatball
• pork neck
• pork out
• pork pie
• pork pie hat
• pork producer
• pork rib
• pork ribs
• pork rind
• pork roast
• pork roll
• pork schnitzel
• pork scratching
• pork scratchings
• pork shoulder
• pork slab
• Pork Soda
• pork steak
• pork store
• pork strips
• pork sung
• pork sword
• pork tapeworm
• pork tenderloin
• pork tenderloin sandwich
• Pork Tornado
• pork up
• pork Wellington
• porky
• Porky Pig
• pork–cat syndrome
• pulled pork
• red braised pork belly
• roast pork
• salt pork
• Scottish pork taboo
• sea pork
• sliced pork
• smoked pork
• spring of pork
• steam minced pork
• sweet and sour pork
• twice-cooked pork
• yuxiang shredded pork

 

Related terms

• porcine

Descendants

• → Japanese: ポーク (pōku)

Translations

meat of a pig

• Afrikaans: varkvleis
• Ahom: 𑜃𑜢𑜤𑜰𑜫 𑜉𑜥 (nü0 mū)
• Albanian: derr (sq) m, mish derri m
• Arabic: لَحْم الْخِنْزِير m (laḥm al-ḵinzīr)
• Armenian: խոզի միս (xozi mis), խոզենի (hy) (xozeni) (rare)
• Asturian: gochu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: donuz əti, donuz (az), bülbül əti (literally “nightingale meat”) (euphemism)
• Basque: txerriki (eu)
• Belarusian: свіні́на f (svinína), сьвіні́на f (sʹvinína)
• Bikol Central: karneng urig
• Bulgarian: сви́нско (bg) n (svínsko)
• Burmese: ဝက်သား (waksa:)
• Catalan: porc (ca) m
• Chickasaw: shokha' nipi'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 豬肉／猪肉 (zyu¹ juk⁶)

  Hakka: 豬肉／猪肉 (chû-ngiuk)

  Hokkien: 豬肉／猪肉 (zh-min-nan) (ti-bah, tu-bah)

  Mandarin: 豬肉／猪肉 (zh) (zhūròu)

• Cornish: kig mogh m, kig porhel m
• Crimean Tatar: domuz eti
• Czech: vepřové (cs) n
• Danish: svinekød (da) n, flæskekød n
• Dutch: varkensvlees (nl) n
• Esperanto: porkaĵo
• Estonian: sealiha
• Faroese: svínakjøt n, flesk n
• Finnish: sianliha (fi), sika (fi), porsas (fi), possu (fi)
• French: porc (fr) m, cochon (fr) m
• Galician: porco (gl) m
• Georgian: ღორის ხორცი (ɣoris xorci)
• German: Schweinefleisch (de) n, Schwein (de) n (collective, colloquial), Schweinernes (de) n (Austrian, Bavarian), Schweiners n (colloquial, Bavarian)
• Greek: χοιρινό (el) n (choirinó)

  Ancient: χοίρεια n pl (khoíreia)

• Guaraní: kure ro'o
• Hawaiian: puaʻa
• Hebrew: (בְּשַׂר) חֲזִיר m ((b'sar) khazír), בָּשָׂר לָבָן m (basár laván) (euphemistic)
• Hindi: सुअर का मांस m (suar kā māns), सुअर का गोश्त m (suar kā gośt), सुअर (hi) m (suar)
• Hungarian: disznóhús (hu), sertéshús (hu)
• Icelandic: svínakjöt (is) n
• Ido: porkokarno (io)
• Indonesian: daging babi, babi (id)
• Irish: muiceoil (ga) f
• Italian: maiale (it) m, suino (it) m, carne suina f
• Japanese: 豚肉 (ja) (ぶたにく, butaniku), ポーク (ja) (pōku)
• Javanese: iwak babi
• Kazakh: шошқа еті (şoşqa etı), шошқа (şoşqa)
• Khakas: сосха иді (sosxa idì)
• Khmer: សាច់ជ្រូក (sac cruuk)
• Korean: 돼지고기 (ko) (dwaejigogi)
• Kyrgyz: чочко эти (cocko eti), чочко (ky) (cocko)
• Lao: ຊີ້ນຫມູ (sīn mū), ເນຶ້ອຫມູ (nưa mū), ຫມູ (mū)
• Latin: carō porcī f, (carō) porcīna f, (carō) suilla f
• Latvian: cūkgaļa f
• Limburgish: verkesvleisj (li)
• Lithuanian: kiauliena f
• Lü: ᦵᦓᦲᧉᦖᦴ (noe²ṁuu), ᦖᦴ (ṁuu), ᦋᦲᧃᧉᦖᦴ (tsiin²ṁuu)
• Lule Sami: svijnebierggo
• Macedonian: сви́нско n (svínsko)
• Malay: daging babi (ms)
• Maltese: majjal m
• Maori: poaka, mīti poaka
• Middle English: pork, swyn
• Nahuatl: pitzonacatl
• Navajo: bisóodi bitsįʼ
• Ngazidja Comorian: purunku
• Northern Thai: ᨶᩮᩬᩨ᩶ᩋᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ, ᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grisekjøtt n, flesk n, svinekjøtt n

  Nynorsk: grisekjøt n, grisekjøtt n, flesk n, svinekjøt n, svinekjøtt n

• Old English: swīn n, swīnes flǣsċ n
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: گوشْتِ خوک (gušt-e xuk), خوک (fa) (xuk)

• Plautdietsch: Schwiensfleesch n, Schinkjefleesch n
• Polish: wieprzowina (pl) f
• Portuguese: carne de porco f, porco (pt) m
• Romani:

  Kalo Finnish Romani: baliȟnesko mas

• Romanian: carne de porc, porc (ro) m
• Romansch: charn-portg f
• Russian: свини́на (ru) f (svinína)
• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: feòil-muice f, muicfheòil f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свињетина f

  Roman: svinjetina (sh) f

• Slovak: bravčové n
• Slovene: svinjina (sl) f
• Spanish: cerdo (es) m, puerco (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: agumeti
• Swahili: kitimoto, nyama ya nguruwe
• Swedish: fläsk (sv) n, fläskkött (sv) n, griskött (sv) n, svinkött n
• Tajik: гӯшти хуг (güšt-i xug), хуг (tg) (xug)
• Taos: kùcitúone
• Thai: หมู (th) (mǔu), เนื้อหมู (nʉ́ʉa mǔu)
• Tongan: puaka
• Turkish: domuz eti (tr), domuz (tr)
• Ukrainian: свини́на f (svynýna)
• Urdu: سُؤَر کا گوشْت m (suar kā gośt), سُؤَر m (suar)
• Uyghur: چوشقا گۆشى (choshqa göshi), چوشقا (choshqa)
• Uzbek: choʻchqa goʻshti, choʻchqa (uz)
• Vietnamese: thịt heo, thịt lợn
• Volapük: svinamit
• Welsh: porc (cy), cig moch (cy) m
• White Hmong: npuas
• Yiddish: שװײַן m (shvayn)
• Zazaki: gosté xozi
• Zhuang: noh mou

opportunist political appropriation

• Swedish: valfläsk (sv) n

See also

• bacon
• ham
• pig
• porcupine
• swine

Verb

pork (third-person singular simple present porks, present participle porking, simple past and past participle porked)

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Boon (Peter Riegert), Universal Pictures:

     Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!

Middle English

Alternative forms

• porc, porke

Etymology

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus. Compare farowen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔrk/, /pɔːrk/

Noun

pork (plural porkes)

1. pork (pig meat)
2. swine, pig

Descendants

• English: pork
• Scots: pork, porc, porck

References

• “pork(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.