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porker

porker

8 7.0
A pig raised to be sold for meat
  • noun
  • /ˈpɔrkər/
translation icon : cerdo
  • We decided to raise a porker for next year's county fair.
  • little porker
  • fat porker
  • porker pound

Examples

  • Porkers who a few months before had been squealing, darting piglets now lay round and fat in their pens, snuffling as they dozed.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • We'll have a bowl of hot punch and a cut from the loin of that young porker.

    The Body Snatcher (1945)

  • After several months of feeding, the porker was ready for market.

  • The farmer was proud of the large porker he had grown for the festival.

Synonyms

hog
vsporker
78 1.0

A large pig kept on a farm for meat

is specifically one fattened to produce meat
grunter
vsporker
8.2

A farm pig that makes short low noises

is described as fattened for slaughter rather than identified by sound

Idioms

to feel like a total porker
  • Offensive
9.9

To think you have eaten too much and now seem too heavy

Compounds

real porker
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who eats too much food

How Fattened

porker
8 7.0
hog
78 1.0
pig
∞ 1.0
piglet
62 1.0

Surface Forms

porker singular
porkers plural

Morphology

porker = pork (semi-transparent) = pork + er

The form clearly combines 'pork' with '-er', but the resulting meaning 'a pig raised for meat' is only loosely predictable from the usual agentive suffix.

Etymology

The word porker comes from pork ('meat from a pig') plus the ending -er, which turns a word into 'one that is' or 'a thing for'. Think of a pig being fattened to become pork — a porker is simply a pig kept for meat.