2. Adjective. (slang) Rather fat. ¹
3. Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) A lie. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Porky
1. resembling pork [adj PORKIER, PORKIEST] / a porcupine [n -KIES] - See also: porcupine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Porky
| porkiest porkiness porkinesses porking porkish porkless porklike porkling porklings porkpie | porkpie hat porkpies porks porkwood porkwoods porky (current term) porky pie porky pies |
Literary usage of Porky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Waldo Burgess (1920)
"CHAPTER X PRICKLY porky AND GRUBBY GOPHER ALL the way to school the next morning
Peter Rabbit wondered who they would learn about that day. ..."
2. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"Ye did not, porky. The man that done it skipped an' we can't find him—seet ...
Wotever ye did, porky, ye did it as my man. Ye did it fer rae, understand! ..."
3. Trails and Tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland by William S. Thomas (1913)
"In conversation we soon learned that he was a college man, a graduate " porky "
of one of the leading colleges in the East, and had come from our own ..."
4. The Tents of Trouble by Damon Runyon (1911)
"... sayin'— " Soupy, soupy, soupy, Without a single bean, porky, porky, porky,
Without a streak o' lean "— Don't yer ast fer " seconds " or yer sure ter git ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"At that moment porky O'Hara came up. He also, was smiling. "Just so you don't
change your mind too often, McNally, I don't care" he said. ..."
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