Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or like pork: a porky flavor.
- adj. Slang Fat or corpulent.
- n. Informal A porcupine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Porklike: as, a porky odor permeated the whole place.
- Fat; plump.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From pork + -y (Wiktionary)
- Shortening and alteration of porcupine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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 …”
“porky" - and are having a wordplay field day with the $375,000 court judgment.”
“First the term 'porky' was coined, followed by 'jumbo,' and then 'butterball.”
“In fact, the first corpulent words were "porky" in the 1860's; "jumbo" in the 1880's; and "butterball" in the 1890s.”
“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'.”
“Exactly ... and yet the "porky" amendments continue.”
“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.”
“You can't get much more "porky" than that; a system based on a flawed premise, that has proven in practise to be impossible.”
“Carpincho they calls 'em; big kind of porky, beavery, ottery, ratty sort of thing; and not bad eating. ”
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