porky

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔː(ɹ).ki/

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• 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; 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

• (rather fat): chubby, chunky, tubby

Translations

rather fat

• Finnish: tanakka (fi), pullea (fi), pulska (fi)
• Greek: παχύς (el) (pachýs), χοντρός (el) (chontrós)
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• Russian: откормленный (ru) m (otkormlennyj)
• Swedish: fläskig, knubbig (sv), rundnätt (sv), småfet

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.