porkman

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noun

a person who produces and sells pork.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounporkman (plural porkmen)

plural porkmen

  1. a person who produces and sells pork.

    He is now 14 and still living in Henley, but now in the home of William Horsley—a “grocer and porkman.”

    2011, Clarke Church, Forebears and Antecedents: A Family History, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 77
    2 more examples

    You said distinctly, “I shall see Wright," madam, and in our peculiar position, I should be wrong not to insist on knowing who is Wright. Susan. Wright! —oh, perhaps I did — Wright's the name of the porkman. Downey. The porkman's Wright, is he?

    1845, Thomas Morton, Seeing Wright. A farce in one act, etc, page 12

    The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.

    2007, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Penguin, →ISBN, page 34

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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