cut of pork
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2.5
- noun
- /kʌt əv pɔrk/
:
pieza de cerdo
- We offer retail cuts of pork, beef, lamb, goat, chicken, and turkey, all grown here on the farm.
Examples
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The meal had started with baked fish and eels, then progressed to cuts of pork, roast mutton, and what looked like pheasant.
Fiction book (1990) -
Tonight, gentlemen, madame, we have only the finest cuts of pork, direct from the local smokehouse.
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Wondering what you would recommend if I wanted to make pork fried rice (what type/cut of pork?)
Blog text (1) -
Tonight, gentlemen, madame, we have only the finest cuts of pork, direct from the local smokehouse.
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I especially enjoyed the Parisian standby choucroute, sauerkraut served with different cuts of pork.
Synonyms
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1.8
A thick piece of meat with a bone from the rib or loin
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2.1
A piece of meat sliced from an animal for cooking
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2.5
Meat from the pig's back often roasted or grilled
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3.4
A fatty cut of pork from the pig's belly that people cook, for example to make bacon
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2.7
A piece of meat taken from a certain part of an animal
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2.5
A long, narrow piece of pork from the pig's back that is very soft
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1.6
A cut of pork cooked in an oven until tender
A lower part of a pig's shoulder used for meat, often smoked or cured
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Morphology
The meaning 'a particular portion of meat' is directly compositional from 'cut' (a named portion or slice) + the linker 'of' + 'pork' (edible pig meat). This follows a common noun-phrase pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Cut of pork comes from butchers who divide a pig into parts with a knife. Each cut of pork is a specific piece from the animal with its own texture and use in cooking, so the phrase means 'a particular piece of pig meat'.