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Porker   /pˈɔrkər/   Listen
Porker

noun
1.
A pig fattened to provide meat.





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"Porker" Quotes from Famous Books



... uses of rings. Even swine are tamed by them. You will see a vagrant, hilarious, devastating porker—a full-blooded fellow that would bleed into many, many fathoms of black pudding—you will see him, escaped from his proper home, straying in a neighbour's garden. How he tramples upon the heart's-ease: how, with quivering snout, he roots up lilies—odoriferous bulbs! Here he gives ...
— Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures • Douglas Jerrold
... where, according to popular saying, the pigs play upon the organ; a proverb which he interpreted allegorically, as having reference to the herd of Epicurus, of which litter Horace confessed himself a porker. His name of Erasmus he derived partly from his father having been the son of a renowned washerwoman, who had held that great scholar in clean linen all the while he was at Oxford; a task of some difficulty, as he was only possessed of two shirts, "the one," as she expressed ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott


Words linked to "Porker" :   pig, grunter, Sus scrofa, squealer, hog


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