porkman
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]porkman (plural porkmen)
- a person who produces and sells pork.
- 1845, Thomas Morton, Seeing Wright. A farce in one act, etc, page 12:
- You said distinctly, “I shall see Wright," madam, and in our peculiar position, I should be wrong not to insist on knowing who is Wright. Susan. Wright! —oh, perhaps I did — Wright's the name of the porkman. Downey. The porkman's Wright, is he?
- 2007, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Penguin, →ISBN, page 34:
- The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
- 2011, Clarke Church, Forebears and Antecedents: A Family History, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 77:
- He is now 14 and still living in Henley, but now in the home of William Horsley—a “grocer and porkman.”