Definition of Porking

1. Verb. (present participle of pork) ¹

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Definition of Porking

1. pork [v] - See also: pork

Lexicographical Neighbors of Porking

porkburger
porkburgers
porkchop
porked
porker
porkers
porket
porkets
porkfish
porkholt
porkier
porkies
porkiest
porkiness
porkinesses
porking (current term)
porkish
porkless
porklike
porkling
porklings
porkpie
porkpie hat
porkpies
porks
porkwood
porkwoods
porky
porky pie
porky pies

Literary usage of Porking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Career of a Journalist by William Salisbury (1908)
"The papers are full of the daring exploit of young Miss porking in capturing a ... Mr. porking hastily orders his carriage, and, adjured by his wife and ..."

2. A journal or historical account of the life, travels, sufferings, Christian by George Fox (1694)
"... the Lord's power was porking, to lead them into a ministry and testimony to his ruth; who, through their too much entangling themselves ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1835)
"W. Phillips, esq., of porking, formerly of Little Tower-hill. Lately. At Richmond, Henry, eldest son of Sir HR Calden, Bart. SUSSEX.—OCI. 6. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"porking- ton 10. Still in common use. (2) An exclamation of amazement. NIAISE. A simple witless gull. (Fr.) Forby has n%, Vocab. ii. 233. NIAS. ..."

5. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1888)
"It is probable that the aggregate slaughtered in the Western porking establishments, in commercial packing elsewhere, and by the farmers m all parts of the ..."

6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"... according to the taste and fancy of the person porking or trouting, either or both respectively. Leaving Colebrook, we started for the Dixville Notch. ..."

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