porky
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(r)ki
Etymology 1
Adjective
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.
- 2010, Victor J. Banis, The Blood of Love (page 113)
- (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.
Synonyms
Translations
rather fat
Etymology 2
Clipping of pork pie.
Noun
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.
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- English countable nouns
- Cockney rhyming slang
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