Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Porklike: as, a porky odor permeated the whole place.
  • Fat; plump.

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of pork.
  • adjective slang Rather fat.
  • noun Cockney rhyming slang A lie.

Etymologies

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From pork +‎ -y

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Shortened from pork pie

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Examples

  • Knowing bully breeds as I do and seeing how many quills are in the dog, I can just about guarantee that porky is playing a harp somewhere …

    Red Bull Can Art Competition 2007

  • "porky" - and are having a wordplay field day with the $375,000 court judgment.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • In fact, the first corpulent words were "porky" in the 1860's; "jumbo" in the 1880's; and "butterball" in the 1890s.

    Janice Taylor: Fat In America: "Hey, FATSO!" 2008

  • First the term 'porky' was coined, followed by 'jumbo,' and then 'butterball.'

    Janice Taylor: The Best 'Stay Fat' Strategies 2008

  • Realizing that over two years ago his Prime Minister must have told him a 'porky' he decided today to act upon that knowledge 'for the good of all'.

    Archive 2005-04-24 Laban 2005

  • Realizing that over two years ago his Prime Minister must have told him a 'porky' he decided today to act upon that knowledge 'for the good of all'.

    UK Religious Right ? Laban 2005

  • If it takes throwing nearly $1 trillion of "porky" (to quote Sen. Charles Schumer) stimulus spending to soften up a Democratic Congress and make it amenable to real entitlement reform, then fine.

    Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email. 2009

  • If it takes throwing nearly $1 trillion of "porky" (to quote Sen. Charles Schumer) stimulus spending to soften up a Democratic Congress and make it amenable to real entitlement reform, then fine.

    unknown title 2009

  • Sort of like the way he finally fessed up to let us all know that, that he knows we really don't care about that "porky" spending him and his Broke Back Mountain comrads do behind our backs.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Associated Press Writer Marcus Franklin 2009

  • Exactly ... and yet the "porky" amendments continue.

    GOPUSA 2009

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