porker

pork +‎ -er

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)kə(r)

porker (plural porkers)

porker# A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.

1. • 1895, Kenneth Graham, 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.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 2, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers.

2. (slang, derogatory) An obese person.
3. (Britain, slang) A lie (from Cockney rhyming slang pork pie).

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