pork

English Online Dictionary. What means pork‎? What does pork mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /poɹk/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹk/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poək/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

Etymology 1

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. The verb is from the black American form of poke.

Noun

pork (countable and uncountable, plural porks)

2. (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.

   Synonyms: pigflesh, pigmeat, swineflesh, swinemeat, the other white meat

3. (US politics, slang, derogatory) 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.
4. (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution

   Synonyms: bacon, pigs, swine; see also Thesaurus:police

   Meronym: porky (“one member of law enforcement, policeman”)

Derived terms

Related terms

• porcine

Descendants

• → Japanese: ポーク (pōku)

Translations

See also

• bacon
• ham
• pig
• porcupine
• swine

Verb

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).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with

Etymology 2

Blend of pin +‎ fork

Noun

pork (plural porks)

1. (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• porc, porke

Etymology

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus. Compare farowen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔrk/, /pɔːrk/

Noun

pork (plural porkes)

1. pork (pig meat)
2. swine, pig

Descendants

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

References

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