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porker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɔːkə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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• /ˈpɔɹkɚ/ (US)

Etymology

From pork + -er. * (obese person; police officer): Carried over from the same senses of pig. * (a lie): Extension of the rhyming slang pork pie.

Meanings

1. A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
   • Again, when Harold was locked up in his room all day, for assault and battery upon a neighbour's pig, - an action he would have scorned, being indeed on the friendliest terms with the porker in question, - there was no handsome expression of regret on the discovery of the real culprit. 1895, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, London, page 6:
   • In every vacant space new houses are being built, and all sorts of odd little cooking-sheds are erected against the old ones, while in some out-of-the-way corners, massive log pigsties are tenanted by growing porkers; for how can the Chinamen exist six months without one feast of pig? 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 214:
   • All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers. 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
   • Jerry Lynch, a pig's head pickled. Term usually applied to the long Irish heads which are sent over here for sale in the poorer districts of London, and which are vastly different from the heads of “dairy-fed” porkers. 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary:
2. (derogatory, slang) An obese person.
3. (Cockney, UK, slang) A lie.
4. (US, derogatory, slang) A police officer.

Forms

Synonyms

fatass · salad dodger · tubbo · roly-poly · oinker · porker · obeast · fatty · chubbs · fatshit · hambeast · chodder · whale · pudge · gorbelly · tubbalard · chunky monkey · chod · butterball · chunker · tub of lard · lardass · porky · fat fuck · fatso · thunder thighs · fatfuck · tubba lard · chubster · podge · fat-ass · tub of guts · fatty bom bom · hamplanet · pig · fussock · fat · fatty boombalatty · lardo · elephant · fattie · heffalump · All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled · lardbucket · swagbelly · porky pie · landwhale

Translations (7)

ru бо́ров (pig raised for slaughter) · pl bekoniak (pig raised for slaughter) · fi lihotusporsas (pig raised for slaughter) · fi possu (pig raised for slaughter) · fi syöttöporsas (pig raised for slaughter) · pl bekon (pig raised for slaughter) · pl tucznik (pig raised for slaughter)