/ˈpɔː(ɹ).ki/
- Resembling or characteristic of pork.
“It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.”
- slangRather fat; chubby.
“In front of Lister a small red-haired man, with a porky roll of flesh above his towel-top, was examining a line of girls.”
- Multicultural-London-English, form-of, singulative, slangsingulative of pork (“law enforcement”)
- Cockney, slangA lie.
“When she turned up at the lab, she gave us a sprawling prepared presentation relying heavily on anecdotal evidence, where it wasn't relying on skewed statistics, unfounded claims and outright porkies.”
- Cockney, in-plural, slangAn eye.
“Fucked if I know, I never even clapped my little porkies on him before.”
- childish, informalA porcupine.
“The irate Ranger killed thirteen porcupines chewing away on his front porch, and still they came, the salt proving an irresistible lure. In this same district a porky pulled the most impudent stunt of”
“Although porcupines lack the ability to throw their quills, they do have the capacity to raise and lower them at will. When threatened, a porky elevates its quills so that it bristles like some sort o”
“He snarled, and the porky looked to be running away but swung his tail and put about twenty-five quills in the side of our dog’s face.”
Formsporkier(comparative) · porkiest(superlative) · porkies(plural)