porker

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːkə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹkɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)

Noun

porker (plural porkers)

1. A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
   • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary:

     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.

   • 1895, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, London, page 6:

     Again, when Harold was locked up in his room all day, for assault and battery upon a neighbour's pig, - an action he would have scorned, being indeed on the friendliest terms with the porker in question, - there was no handsome expression of regret on the discovery of the real culprit.

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers.

2. (slang, derogatory) An obese person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fat person

3. (British, Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.

   Synonyms: porky, porky pie

4. (US, slang, derogatory) A police officer.

Translations

pig raised for slaughter

• Finnish: lihotusporsas, possu (fi)
• Polish: bekon (pl) m, bekoniak m
• Russian: бо́ров (ru) m (bórov)

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