Meanings
plural porkers
- A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
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, →OCLC3 more examples
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 DictionaryIn 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 214Again, 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 - derogatoryslangAn obese person.
Synonyms: All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, butterball, chod, chodder, chubbs, chubster, chunker, chunky monkey
- USderogatoryslangA police officer.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn obese person.
Origin
From pork + -er. * (obese person; police officer): Carried over from the same senses of pig. * (a lie): Extension of the rhyming slang pork pie.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish syöttöporsas, lihotusporsas
- syöttöporsaspig raised for slaughter
- lihotusporsaspig raised for slaughter
- possupig raised for slaughter
Polish tucznik, bekon
- tucznikpig raised for slaughter
- bekonpig raised for slaughter
- bekoniakpig raised for slaughter
Russian бо́ров
- бо́ров (bórov)pig raised for slaughter
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with porker
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Cite this entry
porker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/porker
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