porkman

porkman

English

Etymology

pork +‎ -man

Noun

porkman (plural porkmen)

1. a person who produces and sells pork.
   • 1845, Thomas Morton, Seeing Wright. A farce in one act, etc, page 12:

     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?

   • 2007, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Penguin (ISBN 9781101043677), page 34:

     The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.

   • 2011, Clarke Church, Forebears and Antecedents: A Family History, Xlibris Corporation (ISBN 9781465325099), page 77:

     He is now 14 and still living in Henley, but now in the home of William Horsley—a “grocer and porkman.”