porky
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[edit]porky (comparative porkier, superlative porkiest)
- 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.
- (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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[edit]rather fat
Noun
[edit]porky
- (MLE, slang) singulative of pork (“law enforcement”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Clipping of pork pie.
Noun
[edit]porky (plural porkies)
- (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.
- (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
[edit]Noun
[edit]porky (plural porkies)
- (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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