porket
(ˈpɔəkɪt)
[a. ONF. porket, porquet, OF. porchet, dim. of porc pork1.]
A small or young pig or hog; in mod. dial. use = porker 1.
| [1312 Bolton Priory Comp. 244 b, Preter, vj. bacones de dono Petri de Mytone. Et .ix. porchettos de dono Eue de Landa.] 1554 Bradford in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. xxix. 82 Nor any liberty or power upon a poor porket have al the devils in hel. 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 277 We are now become Gergesites, that would rather lose Christs than our Porkets. 1697 Dryden æneid xii. 257 [He] off'rings to the flaming altars bears—A porket, and a lamb that never suffer'd shears. 1837 Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes II. 139 Bring..figs to my porkets. 1900 Oxford Times 1 Dec. 2 Prizes..for bacon hogs and porkets. |