porker
(ˈpɔəkə(r))
[f. pork1 + -er1 1.]
1. a. A young hog fattened for pork; also, any swine or pig raised for food.
| 1657 Heylin Ecclesia Vind. 181 They sacrificed a swine or porker, with this solemn form. 1670 Capt. J. Smith Eng. Improv. Reviv'd 195 Beech-mast is very good feeding for Swine to make them Porkers, and for Bacon. 1726 Pope Odyss. xvii. 201 Then sheep and goats and bristly porkers bled. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth ii, As round and full as a six-weeks' porker. 1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I am ii, Even the pigs were the aristocracy of the porker tribe. 1884 St. James' Gaz. 11 Dec. 12/1 The stock..consisted of..bacon hogs and porkers. |
b. fig. A fat or porcine person.
| 1892 [see Balzacian a.]. 1959 I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 168 The unfortunate fat boy.., is known as: back end of a bus..porker, [etc.]. 1959 Good Food Guide 42 So many restaurants in the Thames Valley have been ruined by the expense-account porkers, who neither care what they pay nor know what they eat. |
† 2. A sword. Obs. slang. (Cf. pigsticker, a long-bladed pocket-knife, or sword.)
| 1688 Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia i. i, The Captain whipt his porker out. Ibid. ii. a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Porker, a Sword. 1725 in New Cant. Dict. |