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.

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.