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Webster 1913 Edition

Pork

Pork

,
Noun.
[F.
porc
, L.
porcus
hog, pig. See
Farrow
a litter of pigs, and cf.
Porcelain
,
Porpoise
.]
The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pork

PORK

,
Noun.
[L. porcus, a hog or pig; porca, a ridge; or from his snout and rooting.] The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.

Definition 2024

pork

pork

English

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pork ‎(uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) The meat of a pig; swineflesh.
    The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.
  2. (US, politics, slang, pejorative) 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.

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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).

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  • See Wikisaurus:sexual intercourse

References

  1. ↑ “pork” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

Etymology

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.

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