pork

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /poɹk/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹk/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poək/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

Etymology 1

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. The verb is from the black American form of poke.

Noun

pork (countable and uncountable, plural porks)

2. (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.

   Synonyms: pigflesh, pigmeat, swineflesh, swinemeat, the other white meat

   The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.

3. (US politics, slang, derogatory) 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.
4. (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution

   Synonyms: bacon, pigs, swine; see also Thesaurus:police

   Meronym: porky (“one member of law enforcement, policeman”)

Derived terms

• barbecued pork
• barbecue pork
• 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
• organic pork
• partially defatted pork fatty tissue
• Peking pork
• pickled pork
• piece of pork
• pig upon pork
• 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
• porkbuster
• pork butcher
• pork butt
• pork cheek
• pork cheese
• pork chop
• pork chop island
• pork consumption
• pork-containing
• pork cutlet
• pork cycle
• pork dripping
• pork ear
• pork-eater
• pork-eating
• porker
• pork escalope
• pork fat
• pork fillet
• porkfish
• pork floss
• pork goulash
• pork hedgehog
• pork hock
• porking
• pork insulin
• pork jelly
• pork jowl
• pork kebab
• pork kidney
• pork knocker
• pork-knocker
• pork knuckle
• pork liver
• pork loin
• pork meat
• pork meatball
• pork neck
• pork out
• pork pie
• pork pie hat
• pork producer
• pork rib
• pork ribs
• pork rind
• pork roast
• pork roll
• pork schnitzel
• pork scratching
• pork scratchings
• pork shoulder
• pork slab
• Pork Soda
• pork steak
• pork store
• pork strips
• pork sung
• pork sword
• pork tapeworm
• pork tenderloin
• pork tenderloin sandwich
• Pork Tornado
• pork up
• pork Wellington
• porky
• Porky Pig
• pork–cat syndrome
• pulled pork
• red braised pork belly
• roast pork
• salt pork
• Scottish pork taboo
• sea pork
• sliced pork
• smoked pork
• spring of pork
• steam minced pork
• sweet and sour pork
• twice-cooked pork
• yuxiang shredded pork

 

Related terms

• porcine

Descendants

• → Japanese: ポーク (pōku)

Translations

meat of a pig

• Afrikaans: varkvleis
• Ahom: 𑜃𑜢𑜤𑜰𑜫 𑜉𑜥 (nü0 mū)
• Albanian: derr (sq) m, mish derri m
• Arabic: لَحْم الْخِنْزِير m (laḥm al-ḵinzīr)
• Armenian: խոզի միս (xozi mis), խոզենի (hy) (xozeni) (rare)
• Asturian: gochu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: donuz əti, donuz (az), bülbül əti (literally “nightingale meat”) (euphemism)
• Basque: txerriki (eu)
• Belarusian: свіні́на f (svinína), сьвіні́на f (sʹvinína)
• Bikol Central: karneng urig
• Bulgarian: сви́нско (bg) n (svínsko)
• Burmese: ဝက်သား (waksa:)
• Catalan: porc (ca) m
• Chickasaw: shokha' nipi'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 豬肉 / 猪肉 (zyu¹ juk⁶)

  Hakka: 豬肉 / 猪肉 (chû-ngiuk)

  Hokkien: 豬肉 / 猪肉 (zh-min-nan) (ti-bah, tu-bah)

  Mandarin: 豬肉 / 猪肉 (zh) (zhūròu)

• Cornish: kig mogh m, kig porhel m
• Crimean Tatar: domuz eti
• Czech: vepřové (cs) n
• Danish: svinekød (da) n, flæskekød n
• Dutch: varkensvlees (nl) n
• Esperanto: porkaĵo
• Estonian: sealiha
• Faroese: svínakjøt n, flesk n
• Finnish: sianliha (fi), sika (fi), porsas (fi), possu (fi)
• French: porc (fr) m, cochon (fr) m
• Galician: porco (gl) m
• Georgian: ღორის ხორცი (ɣoris xorci)
• German: Schweinefleisch (de) n, Schwein (de) n (collective, colloquial), Schweinernes (de) n (Austrian, Bavarian), Schweiners n (colloquial, Bavarian)
• Greek: χοιρινό (el) n (choirinó)

  Ancient: χοίρεια n pl (khoíreia)

• Guaraní: kure ro'o
• Hawaiian: puaʻa
• Hebrew: (בְּשַׂר) חֲזִיר m ((b'sar) khazír), בָּשָׂר לָבָן m (basár laván) (euphemistic)
• Hindi: सुअर का मांस m (suar kā māns), सुअर का गोश्त m (suar kā gośt), सुअर (hi) m (suar)
• Hungarian: disznóhús (hu), sertéshús (hu)
• Icelandic: svínakjöt (is) n
• Ido: porkokarno (io)
• Indonesian: daging babi, babi (id)
• Irish: muiceoil (ga) f
• Italian: maiale (it) m, suino (it) m, carne suina f
• Japanese: 豚肉 (ja) (ぶたにく, butaniku), ポーク (ja) (pōku)
• Javanese: iwak babi
• Kazakh: шошқа еті (şoşqa etı), шошқа (şoşqa)
• Khakas: сосха иді (sosxa idì)
• Khiamniungan Naga: yōhnyèih
• Khmer: សាច់ជ្រូក (sac cruuk)
• Korean: 돼지고기 (ko) (dwaejigogi)
• Kyrgyz: чочко эти (cocko eti), чочко (ky) (cocko)
• Lao: ຊີ້ນຫມູ (sīn mū), ເນຶ້ອຫມູ (nưa mū), ຫມູ (mū)
• Latin: carō porcī f, (carō) porcīna f, (carō) suilla f
• Latvian: cūkgaļa f
• Limburgish: verkesvleisj (li)
• Lithuanian: kiauliena f
• Lü: ᦵᦓᦲᧉᦖᦴ (noe²ṁuu), ᦖᦴ (ṁuu), ᦋᦲᧃᧉᦖᦴ (tsiin²ṁuu)
• Lule Sami: svijnebierggo
• Macedonian: сви́нско n (svínsko)
• Malay: daging babi (ms)
• Maltese: majjal m
• Maori: poaka, mīti poaka
• Middle English: pork, swyn
• Nahuatl: pitzonacatl
• Navajo: bisóodi bitsįʼ
• Ngazidja Comorian: purunku
• Northern Thai: ᨶᩮᩬᩨ᩶ᩋᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ, ᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grisekjøtt n, flesk n, svinekjøtt n

  Nynorsk: grisekjøt n, grisekjøtt n, flesk n, svinekjøt n, svinekjøtt n

• Old English: swīn n, swīnes flǣsċ n
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: گوشْتِ خوک (gušt-e xuk), خوک (fa) (xuk)

• Plautdietsch: Schwiensfleesch n, Schinkjefleesch n
• Polish: wieprzowina (pl) f
• Portuguese: carne de porco f, porco (pt) m
• Romani:

  Kalo Finnish Romani: baliȟnesko mas

• Romanian: carne de porc, porc (ro) m
• Romansch: charn-portg f
• Russian: свини́на (ru) f (svinína)
• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: feòil-muice f, muicfheòil f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свињетина f

  Roman: svinjetina (sh) f

• Slovak: bravčové n
• Slovene: svinjina (sl) f
• Spanish: cerdo (es) m, puerco (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: agumeti
• Swahili: kitimoto, nyama ya nguruwe
• Swedish: fläsk (sv) n, fläskkött (sv) n, griskött (sv) n, svinkött n
• Tajik: гӯшти хуг (güšt-i xug), хуг (tg) (xug)
• Taos: kùcitúone
• Thai: หมู (th) (mǔu), เนื้อหมู (nʉ́ʉa mǔu)
• Tongan: puaka
• Turkish: domuz eti (tr), domuz (tr)
• Ukrainian: свини́на f (svynýna)
• Urdu: سُؤَر کا گوشْت m (suar kā gośt), سُؤَر m (suar)
• Uyghur: چوشقا گۆشى (choshqa göshi), چوشقا (choshqa)
• Uzbek: choʻchqa goʻshti, choʻchqa (uz)
• Vietnamese: thịt heo, thịt lợn
• Volapük: svinamit
• Welsh: porc (cy), cig moch (cy) m
• White Hmong: npuas
• Yiddish: שװײַן m (shvayn)
• Zazaki: gosté xozi
• Zhuang: noh mou

opportunist political appropriation

• Swedish: valfläsk (sv) n

See also

• bacon
• ham
• pig
• porcupine
• swine

Verb

pork (third-person singular simple present porks, present participle porking, simple past and past participle porked)

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Boon (Peter Riegert), Universal Pictures:

     Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!

Etymology 2

Blend of pin +‎ fork

Noun

pork (plural porks)

1. (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• porc, porke

Etymology

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus. Compare farowen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔrk/, /pɔːrk/

Noun

pork (plural porkes)

1. pork (pig meat)
2. swine, pig

Descendants

• English: pork
• Scots: pork, porc, porck

References

• “pork(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.