pork

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/pɔːk/
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/pɔːk/ · /poɹk/ · /po(ː)ɹk/ · /poək/

Definition of pork

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)The meat of a pig.
    “The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)The meat of a pig.
    “The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.”
  2. (US, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable)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.
  3. (Multicultural-London-English, collective, countable, slang, uncountable)law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
  4. A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.

verb

  1. (slang, transitive, usually, vulgar)To have sex with (someone).
    “Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!”
    “You know, I can't remember just how I discovered doorknobs, but as a teenager I used to pork myself on a particular one — a nice, smooth round one — from time to time.”

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos Proto-Italic *porkos Latin porcus Old French porcbor. Middle English pork English pork From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos Proto-Italic *porkos Latin porcus Old French porcbor. Middle English pork English pork 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.

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