porker
nounUK /ˈpɔːkə/ · US /ˈpɔɹkɚ/
Etymology From pork + -er. * (obese person; police officer): Carried over from the same senses of pig. * (a lie): Extension of the rhyming slang pork pie.
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A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
- Jerry Lynch, a pig's head pickled. Term usually applied to the long Irish heads which are sent over here for sale in the poorer districts of London, and which are vastly different from the heads of “dairy-fed” porkers.1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary:
- In every vacant space new houses are being built, and all sorts of odd little cooking-sheds are erected against the old ones, while in some out-of-the-way corners, massive log pigsties are tenanted by growing porkers; for how can the Chinamen exist six months without one feast of pig?1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 214:
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- 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.1895, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, London, page 6:
- All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
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Derogatory, Slang An obese person.
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US, Derogatory, Slang A police officer.