pork

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  1. noun The flesh of a pig or hog used as food.
  2. noun Government funds, appointments, or benefits dispensed or legislated by politicians to gain favor with their constituents: "However much [the voters] may distrust Congress and dislike pork, the advantages of being represented by an incumbent with seniority are hard to deny” (Richard Lacayo).
  3. intransitive verb Slang To eat ravenously; gorge oneself. Used with out.
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  • I could not withstand the temptation At that moment it seemed to me that Yekil was the judge, and the boys who had found the pork were the witnesses against me. —  In Those Days
  • The New Year's Eve menu consists of boiled cod or stewed kale with pork, which is meant to bring good luck and happiness for the coming year. —  The Daily Record - Home
  • Agriculture (1. 4\% of GDP): Major products -- pork, rice, fruit and vegetables, sugarcane, poultry, shrimp, eel.
  • It was a good combination, although the pork was a little bland. —  Reader - MassLive.com
  • Benn said firms should state clearly on labels the country of origin for their prime ingredients - instead of where products were last significantly processed - so ­consumers can make a more informed choice about what they buy and eat. scare over dioxins in Irish pork last month revealed problems in identifying which products were affected and demonstrated why better labelling was needed, he told the Oxford farming conference. —  Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French porc, pig, from Latin porcus; see porko- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English pork, poork, porc, from Old French (and F.) porc = Spanish puerco = Portuguese Italian porco, a hog, pork, from Latin porcus (= Greek (Italic?) πόρκος), a swine, hog, pig (porca, feminine, or porcus femina, a sow), = Lithuanian parszas = Welsh porch = Irish orc (with reg. loss of initial p) = Anglo-Saxon fearh, English farrow, a pig: see farrow.
 

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