pork
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- 10
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- 11
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Definition of pork
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)The meat of a pig.
“The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.”
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noun
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(uncountable)The meat of a pig.
“The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.”
- (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.
- (Multicultural-London-English, collective, countable, slang, uncountable)law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
verb
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(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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