porky

comparative porkier · superlative porkiest

1. Resembling or characteristic of pork.

   It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.

   2010, Victor J. Banis, The Blood of Love, page 113

2. slangRather fat; chubby.

   In front of Lister a small red-haired man, with a porky roll of flesh above his towel-top, was examining a line of girls.

   1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

   Synonyms: chubby, chunky, tubby

plural porkies

1. Multicultural London Englishsingulativeslangsingulative of pork (“law enforcement”)

   Man it don't haunt me I pray we never lose to the porkies

   2026 August 30, #SilwoodNation T1, “Jaiye” (1:37 from the start)

plural porkies

1. CockneyslangA lie.

   When she turned up at the lab, she gave us a sprawling prepared presentation relying heavily on anecdotal evidence, where it wasn't relying on skewed statistics, unfounded claims and outright porkies.

   2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 203

   Synonyms: porker, porky pie

2. Cockneyin pluralslangAn eye.

   Fucked if I know, I never even clapped my little porkies on him before.

   2015, Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bred in Wengen

plural porkies

1. childishinformalA porcupine.

   He snarled, and the porky looked to be running away but swung his tail and put about twenty-five quills in the side of our dog’s face.

   2021, Ron Paliskis, “The Beasts at the lake”, in Ron: A Coke Alley Boy, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, section “Porcupines”, page 59

   2 more examples

   The irate Ranger killed thirteen porcupines chewing away on his front porch, and still they came, the salt proving an irresistible lure. In this same district a porky pulled the most impudent stunt of all.

   1929, Forest and Stream, page 58

   Although porcupines lack the ability to throw their quills, they do have the capacity to raise and lower them at will. When threatened, a porky elevates its quills so that it bristles like some sort of mammalian cactus with giant spines.

   2000, Warner Shedd, “A “Pig,” Perhaps, but Not a Hog: The Porcupine”, in Owls Aren’t Wise & Bats Aren’t Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, page 52