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porky

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[pawr-kee, pohr-]

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adjective, pork·i·er, pork·i·est.

of, relating to, or resembling pork.

fat: a porky child.

Origin of porky

¹

First recorded in 1850–55; pork + -y¹

Related formspork·i·ness, noun

porky

²

[pawr-kee, pohr-]

noun, plural pork·ies. Chiefly Inland North and Western U.S..

Origin of porky

²

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; porc(upine) + -y²

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Related Words for porky

hog, swine, boar, piglet, sow, porker, shoat, piggy

Examples from the Web for porky

Contemporary Examples of porky

Porky Pig, “Blue Christmas” Who says there are no new Christmas classics?
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Malcolm Jones
December 7, 2012
We do care about “all those little, tiny, yes, porky amendments.”
A Centrist Gets Fighting Mad
Mark McKinnon
October 13, 2010
We do care about "all those little, tiny, yes, porky amendments."
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Mark McKinnon
October 13, 2010

Historical Examples of porky

Well, as I was saying, it's absurd to worry; he's not a porky father.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. 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 Trapper
Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
The first bear trap that we came to, we found a "porky" in it.
Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper
Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
It was Porky, with that wedge-coat of hisn, and a seegar as big as a corn-cob!
Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher
Eleanor Gates
Diana looked doubtfully at the two inches of brown, porky substance on her ivy-leaf plate, and sighed.
A harum-scarum schoolgirl
Angela Brazil

British Dictionary definitions for porky

porky

¹

adjective porkier or porkiest

belonging to or characteristic of porka porky smell

informal fat; obese

Derived Formsporkiness, noun

porky

²

noun plural porkies

British slang a lieAlso called: pork pie

Word Origin for porky

from rhyming slang pork pie lie

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Word Origin and History for porky

adj.

1852, from pork (n.) + -y (2). Related: Porkiness.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper