pork

From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”), from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“young pig, hog”). More at farrow.

Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɔɹk/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹk/[1]
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poək/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

pork (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) The meat of a pig; swineflesh.

   The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.

2. (US, politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or his or her constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.

• (meat of a pig) pigmeat, swineflesh

• long pork
• (US political slang) pork barrel
• pork chop
• pork pie
• pork sword
• porker
• porky
• sea pork

• porcine

• bacon
• ham
• pig
• porcupine
• swine

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).

   Animal House, Universal Pictures, 1978:
   Boon: Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!
   Otter: Pork?
   Boon: You're gonna hump her brains out, aren't you?
   Otter: Boon, I anticipate a deeply religious experience.

• See Thesaurus:copulation

• porc

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus.

• IPA^(key): /poːrk/

pork (plural porks)

1. pork; pig meat
2. swine, pig

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

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