pork

pork

English

Etymology

From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”), from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“piglet”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. More at farrow.

Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.

US politics sense is related to pork barrel.The verb is from the Black American form of poke.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɔɹk/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹk/[1]
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poək/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

Noun

pork (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) The meat of a pig; swineflesh.

   Synonyms: pigmeat, swineflesh, the other white meat

   The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.

2. (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
3. (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution

   Synonyms: bacon, pigs, swine; see also Thesaurus:police

   Meronym: porky (“one member of law enforcement, policeman”)

4. (slang) A shag; a fuck; an act of coitus.

   porking

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Derived terms

• barbecued pork
• cut of pork
• Dongpo pork
• double-cooked pork
• flossy pork
• ground pork
• Huizeng pork
• jellied pork
• long pork
• lychee pork
• minced pork
• minced pork rice
• moo shi pork
• mu shu pork
• mu xu pork
• National Pork Board
• organic pork
• Peking pork
• pickled pork
• pork and beans
• pork bacon
• pork ball
• pork barrel
• pork-based
• pork belly
• pork blood
• pork blood soup
• pork bouillon
• porkbuster
• pork butcher
• pork butt
• pork–cat syndrome
• pork cheek
• pork chop
• pork consumption
• pork-containing
• pork cutlet
• pork cycle
• pork dripping
• pork ear
• pork-eater
• pork-eating
• porker
• pork escalope
• pork fat
• pork fillet
• porkfish
• pork floss
• pork goulash
• pork hedgehog
• pork hock
• porking
• pork insulin
• pork jelly
• pork jowl
• pork kebab
• pork kidney
• pork-knocker
• pork knuckle
• pork liver
• pork loin
• pork meat
• pork meatball
• pork neck
• pork pie
• pork pie hat
• pork producer
• pork rib
• pork ribs
• pork rind
• pork roast
• pork roll
• pork schnitzel
• pork scratchings
• pork shoulder
• pork slab
• Pork Soda
• pork steak
• pork store
• pork strips
• pork sung
• pork sword
• pork tapeworm
• pork tenderloin
• pork tenderloin sandwich
• Pork Tornado
• porky
• Porky Pig
• pulled pork
• red braised pork belly
• salt pork
• Scottish pork taboo
• sea pork
• sliced pork
• smoked pork
• steam minced pork
• sweet and sour pork
• twice-cooked pork
• yuxiang shredded pork

 

Related terms

• porcine

Descendants

• → Japanese: ポーク (pōku)

Translations

meat of a pig

Albanian: derr (sq) m, mish derri m Arabic: لَحْم الْخِنْزِير‎ m (laḥm al-ḵinzīr) Armenian: խոզի միս (xozi mis), խոզենի (hy) (xozeni) (rare) Basque: txerriki (eu) Belarusian: свіні́на f (svinína) Bikol Central: karneng urig Bulgarian: сви́нско (bg) n (svínsko) Burmese: ဝက်သား (waksa:) Catalan: porc (ca) m Chickasaw: shokha' nipi' Chinese: Cantonese: 豬肉, 猪肉 (zyu1 juk6) Hakka: 豬肉, 猪肉 (chû-ngiuk) Mandarin: 豬肉／猪肉 (zh) (zhūròu) Min Nan: 豬肉 (zh-min-nan) (ti-bah, tu-bah) Cornish: kig mogh m, kig porhel m Czech: vepřové (cs) n Danish: svinekød (da) n, flæskekød n Dutch: varkensvlees (nl) n Esperanto: porkaĵo Estonian: sealiha Finnish: sianliha (fi), sika (fi), porsas (fi), possu (fi) Faroese: svínakjøt n, flesk n French: porc (fr) m, cochon (fr) m Galician: porco (gl) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Schweinefleisch (de) n, Schwein (de) n (collective, colloquial), Schweinernes (de) n (Austrian, Bavarian), Schweiners n (colloquial, Bavarian) Greek: χοιρινό (el) n (choirinó) Ancient: χοίρεια n pl (khoíreia) Guaraní: kure ro'o Hawaiian: puaʻa Hebrew: (בְּשַׂר) חֲזִיר‎ m ((b'sar) khazír), בָּשָׂר לָבָן‎ m (basár laván) (euphemistic) Hindi: सुअर का मांस m (suar kā māns), सुअर का गोश्त m (suar kā gośt), सुअर (hi) m (suar) Hungarian: disznóhús (hu), sertéshús (hu) Icelandic: svínakjöt (is) n Ido: porkokarno (io) Indonesian: daging babi, babi (id) Irish: muiceoil (ga) f Italian: maiale (it) m, suino (it) m, carne suina f Japanese: 豚肉 (ja) (ぶたにく, butaniku), ポーク (ja) (pōku) Javanese: iwak babi Khakas: сосха иді (sosxa idì) Khmer: សាច់ជ្រូក (sac cruuk) Korean: 돼지고기 (ko) (dwaejigogi) Lao: ຊີ້ນຫມູ (sīn mū), ເນຶ້ອຫມູ (nưa mū), ຫມູ (mū) Latin: carō porcī f, (carō) porcīna f, (carō) suilla f Latvian: cūkgaļa f Limburgish: verkesvleisj (li) Lithuanian: kiauliena f Lule Sami: svijnebierggo Lü: ᦵᦓᦲᧉᦖᦴ (noe²ṁuu), ᦖᦴ (ṁuu), ᦋᦲᧃᧉᦖᦴ (tsiin²ṁuu) Macedonian: сви́нско n (svínsko) Malay: daging babi (ms) Maltese: majjal m Maori: poaka, mīti poaka Middle English: pork, swyn Nahuatl: pitzonacatl Navajo: bisóodi bitsįʼ Ngazidja Comorian: purunku Northern Thai: ᨶᩮᩬᩨ᩶ᩋᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ, ᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ Norwegian: Bokmål: grisekjøtt n, flesk n, svinekjøtt n Nynorsk: grisekjøt n, grisekjøtt n, flesk n, svinekjøt n, svinekjøtt n Old English: swīn n, swīnes flǣsċ n Plautdietsch: Schwiensfleesch n, Schinkjefleesch n Polish: wieprzowina (pl) f Portuguese: carne de porco f, porco (pt) m Romani: Kalo Finnish Romani: baliȟnesko mas Romanian: carne de porc Romansch: charn-portg f Russian: свини́на (ru) f (svinína) Samoan: please add this translation if you can Scottish Gaelic: feòil-muice f, muicfheòil f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: свињетина f Roman: svinjetina (sh) f Slovak: bravčové n Slovene: svinjina (sl) f Spanish: cerdo (es) m, puerco (es) m Swahili: kitimoto, nyama ya nguruwe Swedish: fläsk (sv) n, fläskkött (sv) n, griskött (sv) n, svinkött n Taos: kùcitúone Thai: หมู (th) (mǔu), เนื้อหมู (th) Tongan: puaka Turkish: domuz eti Ukrainian: свини́на f (svynýna) Urdu: سور کا گوشت‎ m (su'ar kā gośt) Vietnamese: thịt heo Volapük: svinamit Welsh: porc (cy), cig moch (cy) m White Hmong: npuas Yiddish: שװײַן‎ m (shvayn) Zazaki: gosté xozi Zhuang: noh mou

opportunist political appropriation

Swedish: valfläsk (sv) n

See also

• bacon
• ham
• pig
• porcupine
• swine

Verb

pork (third-person singular simple present porks, present participle porking, simple past and past participle porked)

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 1978, Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney; Chris Miller, Animal House, Universal Pictures, spoken by Boon (Peter Riegert):

     Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!

References

1. “pork”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• porc, porke

Etymology

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus. Compare farowen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔrk/, /pɔːrk/

Noun

pork (plural porkes)

1. pork (pig meat)
2. swine, pig

Descendants

• English: pork
• Scots: pork, porc, porck

References

• “pork(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.