Meanings
pork1
plural porks
- uncountableThe meat of a pig.
The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.
Synonyms: hog meat, pigflesh, pigmeat, swineflesh, swinemeat, the other white meat
- UScountablederogatoryslanguncountablegovernmentFunding 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.
- Multicultural London EnglishcollectivecountableslanguncountableLaw enforcement; those who side with criminal prosecution.
Synonyms: bacon, pig, swine, 5-O, Babylon, bacon, Big Blue Machine, Bill
present singular third person porks · participle present porking · participle past porked · past porked
- slangtransitiveusuallyvulgarTo have sex with (someone).
Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!
1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Boon (Peter Riegert), Universal Pictures1 more example
You know, I can't remember just how I discovered doorknobs, but as a teenager I used to pork myself on a particular one — a nice, smooth round one — from time to time.
1989 February 12, Vanessa Nemeth, Stephanie Poggi, “Fun With The Electro-Lux And Other Masturbation Stories”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 9Synonyms: Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto
pork2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe meat of a pig.
nounLaw enforcement; those who side with criminal prosecution.
verbTo have sex with (someone).
More synonyms by meaning
nouna legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
pork · noun, verb
- Proto-Indo-European*perḱ-
- Proto-Indo-European*pórḱos
- Proto-Italic*porkos
- Latinporcus
- Old Frenchporc
- Middle Englishpork
- Englishpork
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.
More words from Middle English, Old French, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans varkvleis
- varkvleismeat of a pig
Ancient Greek χοίρεια
- χοίρεια (khoíreia)meat of a pig
Arabic لَحْم الْخِنْزِير
- لَحْم الْخِنْزِير (laḥm al-ḵinzīr)meat of a pig
Basque txerriki
- txerrikimeat of a pig
Bulgarian сви́нско
- сви́нско (svínsko)meat of a pig
Catalan porc
- porcmeat of a pig
Chinese Cantonese 豬肉 /猪肉
- 豬肉 /猪肉 (zyu¹ juk⁶)meat of a pig
Chinese Mandarin 豬肉 /猪肉
- 豬肉 /猪肉 (zhūròu)meat of a pig
Czech vepřové
- vepřovémeat of a pig
Danish svinekød, flæskekød
- svinekødmeat of a pig
- flæskekødmeat of a pig
Dutch varkensvlees
- varkensvleesmeat of a pig
Esperanto porkaĵo
- porkaĵomeat of a pig
Estonian sealiha
- sealihameat of a pig
Finnish sianliha, sika
- sianlihameat of a pig
- sikameat of a pig
- porsasmeat of a pig
- possumeat of a pig
French porc, cochon
- porcmeat of a pig
- cochonmeat of a pig
German Schweinefleisch, Schwein
- Schweinefleischmeat of a pig
- Schweinmeat of a pig
- Schweinernesmeat of a pig
- Schweinersmeat of a pig
Greek χοιρινό
- χοιρινό (choirinó)meat of a pig
Hawaiian puaʻa
- puaʻameat of a pig
Hebrew חֲזִיר, בָּשָׂר לָבָן
- חֲזִירmeat of a pig
- בָּשָׂר לָבָן (basár laván)meat of a pig
Hindi सुअर का मांस, सुअर का गोश्त
- सुअर का मांस (suar kā māns)meat of a pig
- सुअर का गोश्त (suar kā gośt)meat of a pig
- सुअर (suar)meat of a pig
Hungarian disznóhús, sertéshús
- disznóhúsmeat of a pig
- sertéshúsmeat of a pig
Icelandic svínakjöt
- svínakjötmeat of a pig
Indonesian daging babi, babi
- daging babimeat of a pig
- babimeat of a pig
Irish muiceoil
- muiceoilmeat of a pig
Italian maiale, suino
- maialemeat of a pig
- suinomeat of a pig
- carne suinameat of a pig
Japanese 豚肉, ポーク
- 豚肉 (butaniku)meat of a pig
- ポーク (pōku)meat of a pig
Korean 돼지고기
- 돼지고기 (dwaejigogi)meat of a pig
Latin carō porcī, (carō) porcīna
- carō porcīmeat of a pig
- (carō) porcīnameat of a pig
- (carō) suillameat of a pig
Latvian cūkgaļa
- cūkgaļameat of a pig
Lithuanian kiauliena
- kiaulienameat of a pig
Malay daging babi
- daging babimeat of a pig
Māori poaka, mīti poaka
- poakameat of a pig
- mīti poakameat of a pig
Norwegian Bokmål grisekjøtt, flesk
- grisekjøttmeat of a pig
- fleskmeat of a pig
- svinekjøttmeat of a pig
Polish wieprzowina
- wieprzowinameat of a pig
Portuguese carne de porco, porco
- carne de porcomeat of a pig
- porcomeat of a pig
Romanian carne de porc, porc
- carne de porcmeat of a pig
- porcmeat of a pig
Russian свини́на
- свини́на (svinína)meat of a pig
Scottish Gaelic feòil-muice, muicfheòil
- feòil-muicemeat of a pig
- muicfheòilmeat of a pig
Slovak bravčové
- bravčovémeat of a pig
Spanish cerdo, puerco
- cerdomeat of a pig
- puercomeat of a pig
- carne de chanchomeat of a pig
- matagónmeat of a pig
Swahili kitimoto, nyama ya nguruwe
- kitimotomeat of a pig
- nyama ya nguruwemeat of a pig
Swedish fläsk, fläskkött
- fläskmeat of a pig
- fläskköttmeat of a pig
- grisköttmeat of a pig
- svinköttmeat of a pig
- valfläskopportunist political appropriation
Thai หมู, เนื้อหมู
- หมู (mǔu)meat of a pig
- เนื้อหมู (nʉ́ʉa mǔu)meat of a pig
Turkish domuz eti, domuz
- domuz etimeat of a pig
- domuzmeat of a pig
Ukrainian свини́на
- свини́на (svynýna)meat of a pig
Urdu سُؤَر کا گوشْت, سُؤَر
- سُؤَر کا گوشْت (suar kā gośt)meat of a pig
- سُؤَر (suar)meat of a pig
Vietnamese thịt heo, thịt lợn
- thịt heomeat of a pig
- thịt lợnmeat of a pig
Welsh porc, cig moch
- porcmeat of a pig
- cig mochmeat of a pig
Yiddish שװײַן
- שװײַן (shvayn)meat of a pig
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Cite this entry
pork. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pork
“pork.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pork. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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