porker
/ˈpɔɹkɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Jerry Lynch, a pig's head pickled. Term usually applied to the long Irish heads which are sent over here for sale in the poorer districts of London, and which are vastly different from the heads of “dairy-fed” porkers."
- "In every vacant space new houses are being built, and all sorts of odd little cooking-sheds are erected against the old ones, while in some out-of-the-way corners, massive log pigsties are tenanted by growing porkers; for how can the Chinamen exist six months without one feast of pig?"
- "Again, when Harold was locked up in his room all day, for assault and battery upon a neighbour's pig, - an action he would have scorned, being indeed on the friendliest terms with the porker in question, - there was no handsome expression of regret on the discovery of the real culprit."
- "All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers."
Etymology
From pork + -er. * (obese person; police officer): Carried over from the same senses of pig. * (a lie): Extension of the rhyming slang pork pie.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɔɹkɚ/
- British English: /ˈpɔːkə/
Usage
- Derogatory
- Slang
- British usage
- American usage