porky
1[pawr-kee, pohr-]
Origin of porky
1porky
2[pawr-kee, pohr-]
Origin of porky
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Examples from the Web for porky
Contemporary Examples of porky
Porky Pig, “Blue Christmas” Who says there are no new Christmas classics?
We do care about “all those little, tiny, yes, porky amendments.”
We do care about "all those little, tiny, yes, porky amendments."
Historical Examples of porky
Well, as I was saying, it's absurd to worry; he's not a porky father.
Where Angels Fear to TreadE. M. Forster
No, Smoky, it is no dog; neither is it a porky; it is a bear this time all right.
Fifty Years a Hunter and TrapperEldred Nathaniel Woodcock
The first bear trap that we came to, we found a "porky" in it.
Fifty Years a Hunter and TrapperEldred Nathaniel Woodcock
It was Porky, with that wedge-coat of hisn, and a seegar as big as a corn-cob!
Alec Lloyd, CowpuncherEleanor Gates
Diana looked doubtfully at the two inches of brown, porky substance on her ivy-leaf plate, and sighed.
A harum-scarum schoolgirlAngela Brazil
porky
1porky
2Word Origin for porky
from rhyming slang pork pie lie
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