porky

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling or characteristic of pork.

   • It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.
2. 2

   Rather fat

   Rather fat; chubby.

   • In front of Lister a small red-haired man, with a porky roll of flesh above his towel-top, was examining a line of girls.
3. 3

   singulative of pork (“law enforcement”)

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   1. 4

      A lie.

      • When she turned up at the lab, she gave us a sprawling prepared presentation relying heavily on anecdotal evidence, where it wasn't relying on skewed statistics, unfounded claims and outright porkies.
   2. 5

      An eye.

      • Fucked if I know, I never even clapped my little porkies on him before.
   3. 6

      A porcupine.

      • The irate Ranger killed thirteen porcupines chewing away on his front porch, and still they came, the salt proving an irresistible lure. In this same district a porky pulled the most impudent stunt of all.
      • Although porcupines lack the ability to throw their quills, they do have the capacity to raise and lower them at will. When threatened, a porky elevates its quills so that it bristles like some sort of mammalian cactus with giant spines.
      • He snarled, and the porky looked to be running away but swung his tail and put about twenty-five quills in the side of our dog’s face.

The neighborhood

• neighborporker
• neighborpork pie