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pork

noun
/pɔːk/UK/poɹk/US/po(ː)ɹk/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos Proto-Italic *porkos Latin porcus Old French porcbor. Middle English pork English pork From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken. Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century. US politics sense is related to pork barrel.

  1. derived from porcus
  2. derived from porc
  3. inherited from pork

Definitions

  1. The meat of a pig.

    • The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.

  2. Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their…

    Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.

  3. law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To have sex with (someone).

      • Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!
      • You know, I can't remember just how I discovered doorknobs, but as a teenager I used to pork myself on a particular one — a nice, smooth round one — from time to time.

    2. A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.

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Derived

antipork, barbecued pork, barbecue pork, belly pork, bork, cut of pork, Dongpo pork, double-cooked pork, flossy pork, Huizeng pork, I don't eat pork, jellied pork, long pork, lychee pork, minced pork, minced pork rice, moo shi pork, mu shu pork, mu xu pork, National Pork Board, nonpork, organic pork, partially defatted pork fatty tissue, Peking pork, pickled pork, piece of pork, pig upon pork, porkalicious, pork and beans, pork bacon, pork ball, pork-barrel, pork barrel, pork barrelling, pork-barrelling, pork-based, pork belly, pork blood, pork blood soup, pork bouillon · +98 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pork. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA