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porker

noun
/ˈpɔːkə/UK/ˈpɔɹkɚ/US

Etymology

From pork + -er. * (obese person; police officer): Carried over from the same senses of pig. * (a lie): Extension of the rhyming slang pork pie.

  1. derived from porcus
  2. derived from porc
  3. inherited from pork
  4. suffixed as porker — “pork + er”

Definitions

  1. A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.

    • Jerry Lynch, a pig's head pickled. Term usually applied to the long Irish heads which are sent over here for sale in the poorer districts of London, and which are vastly different from the heads of “dairy-fed” porkers.
    • All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers.

  2. An obese person.

  3. A lie.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A police officer.

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