porker
English
Etymology
From pork + -er.
- (obese person; police officer): Carried over from the same senses of pig.
- (a lie): Extension of the rhyming slang pork pie.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɔːkə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɹkɚ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)
Noun
porker (plural porkers)
- A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
- Jerry Lynch, a pig's head pickled. Term usually applied to the long Irish heads which are sent over here for sale in the poorer districts of London, and which are vastly different from the heads of “dairy-fed” porkers.
- 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 6:
- Again, when Harold was locked up in his room all day, for assault and battery upon a neighbour's pig, - an action he would have scorned, being indeed on the friendliest terms with the porker in question, - there was no handsome expression of regret on the discovery of the real culprit.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 2, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers.
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
- (slang, derogatory) An obese person.
- (Britain, Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.
- (US, slang, derogatory) A police officer.
Translations
pig raised for slaughter
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Anagrams
- proker