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porkishly en · ADV

Etymology

From porkish + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a porkish manner.
   • But did he move them to behave as he wanted them to behave--reasonably, decently, or at least a little less porkishly than usual? 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 22, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:
   • He had grown swollen around the face and porkishly rotund in the midriff, and she noticed that those perfect fingers which, describing their gentle arabesques, had so mysteriously aroused her six years before seemed like rubbery little wurstlike stubs as he adjusted upon his head the gray Homburg that Scheffler obsequiously handed him. 1979, William Styron, Sophie's Choice:
   • Ingenious men, spreading themselves most porkishly to retain a whole seat, when people are passing and re-passing to find a resting place. 1869, The Ohio Farmer - Volume 18, page 536:

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