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Definition of Porker
1. Noun. A pig fattened to provide meat.
Definition of Porker
1. n. A hog.
Definition of Porker
1. Noun. A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter. ¹
2. Noun. (slang pejorative) An obese person. ¹
3. Noun. (British slang) A lie (from Cockney rhyming slang ''pork pie''). [Definition questioned: see discussion.] ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Porker
1. a pig [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Porker
Literary usage of Porker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Potter's American Monthly (1878)
"... porker." May it not be held as a maxim, that the manners of individuals, their
idiosyncrasies, inclinations, and intellectual habits, are modified to a ..."
2. An Essay on the Nature, Design, and Origin, of Sacrifices by Arthur Ashley Sykes (1748)
"... to cut down your Corn, in c* this manner mould you Sacrifice a ** porker. ...
before you cut down your Corn : it " muft be a female porker to Ceres be- ..."
3. Through Romany Songland by Laura Alexandrine Smith (1889)
""We see a jolly porker,and then we say in Romany language, ' Fling the bane yonder
amongst the dirt, and the porker will soon find it, the porker will soon ..."
4. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"When a person conjectures wrongly, he is compared to Hob's hog, a local story
being that the mythical porker in question imagined his breakfast was coming, ..."
5. The Romany Rye: A Sequel to Lavengro by George Henry Borrow (1872)
"We go to the house of the poison-monger,* where we buy three pennies' worth of
bane, and when we return to our people we say, we will poison the porker ; we ..."
6. Centennial History of Missouri: (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the by Walter Barlow Stevens (1921)
"... porker—Make Beef of the Steer Where He is Primed—The Model Stockyards of St.
Joseph—Packing Plants Up-to-Date—Fine Art in Poultry Handling—Rules of ..."
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