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porkman en · NOUN

Etymology

From pork + -man.

Meanings

1. a person who produces and sells pork.
   • He is now 14 and still living in Henley, but now in the home of William Horsley—a “grocer and porkman.” 2011, Clarke Church, Forebears and Antecedents: A Family History, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 77:
   • You said distinctly, “I shall see Wright," madam, and in our peculiar position, I should be wrong not to insist on knowing who is Wright. Susan. Wright! —oh, perhaps I did — Wright's the name of the porkman. Downey. The porkman's Wright, is he? 1845, Thomas Morton, Seeing Wright. A farce in one act, etc, page 12:
   • The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. 2007, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Penguin, →ISBN, page 34:

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