porket

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/ˈpɔː(ɹ)kɪt/

noun

A piglet, especially one that is to be raised to produce pork.

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porkletporkling
OriginAnglo-Norman and Middle French porchet ← Old French porchet →
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Meanings

nounporket (plural porkets)

plural porkets

  1. MidlandsUSA piglet, especially one that is to be raised to produce pork.

    PORKET.....A young pig; defined as being too young to be a baconer but fine for pork.

    [1995, Joan Sims-Kimbrey, Wodds and Doggerybaw: A Lincolnshire Dialect Dictionary […], Boston, Lincolnshire: Richard Kay, →ISBN, page 230, column 2
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    Adorned in white, a reverend priest appears, And offerings to the flaming altars bears— ; A porket, and a lamb that never suffered shears.

    1697, Virgil, “The Twelfth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

    […] his yards abound with poultry, and his fields with flocks and herds of kids, lambs, and porkets.

    1838, William Howitt, The Rural Life of England

    Tender Ranch Pork is selected from only the finest young, corn-fed porkets that produce the succulent pork we all enjoy.

    1976 October 19, Copps, “Gigantic Ton-O-Pork Sale!”, in Herald-Times-Reporter, volume 4, number 247, Manitowoc, Wis., →OCLC, page S-3

    Synonyms: porklet, porkling

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA piglet, especially one that is to be raised to produce pork.

Similar
porkletporkling
Also see
pigletporkletporkling

Origin

  1. Old Frenchporchet
  2. Anglo-Norman and Middle Frenchporchet“piglet”
  3. Englishporket

Probably from pork + -et (diminutive suffix), after Anglo-Norman and Middle French porchet (“piglet”, obsolete French porquet), from Old French porchet, from porc (“pig”) + -et (diminutive suffix). Compare porklet and porkling, and Medieval Latin porchettus, porchetum (in British sources).

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