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porkalicious en · ADJ

Etymology

From pork + -licious.

Meanings

1. (informal, of food) Delicious or tantalising because of the pork it is made from or contains.
   • One mere whiff of the air after stepping onto the third floor of The Standard New York made the theme of the evening’s festivities instantly obvious: bacon – and lots of it, the porkalicious smell seemingly pouring out of the hotel’s tiny High Line Room. 2009 October 12, Yuan-Kwan Chan, “Bacon, blues and expanding bellies at the Food Network NYC Festival”, in Meniscus:
   • Cute though they may be, pigs must serve a function: mama pigs produce little pigs, and papa pigs produce, from their own chubby carcasses, sausages and hams and all the other porkalicious products that will feed a hungry nation. 2007, Martin Rubin, “1933: Movies and the New Deal in Entertainment”, in Ina Rae Harm, editor, American Cinema of the 1930s: Themes and Variations, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 107:
   • […] but the “fresh”, “flavorful” fare – from “porkalicious” potstickers to other “cheap” “Chinese” chow – is something “special” say supporters, adding that lines that “wrap around the block” “tell the story.” 2011, Meesha Halm, Cynthia Kilian, editors, San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants 2012, Zagat, →ISBN:

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