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pork (iou)



pork noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French porc from Latin porcus (male) pig.]
The flesh of pig used as food. ME.
A hog, a pig; spec. a mature pig. obsolete exc. Hist. LME.
= pork-barrel below. US slang. L19.
Phrases: draw pig on pork: see PIG noun1. rabbit-and-pork: see RABBIT noun 4.
Comb.: pork-barrel (a) a barrel in which pork is kept; (b) colloq. (orig. N. Amer.) (the provision of) government funds obtained for particular areas or individuals on the basis of political patronage; pork-barrelling colloq. (orig. N. Amer.) the process of providing government funds for particular areas or individuals on the basis of political patronage; pork-butcher (a) a person who slaughters pigs for sale; (b) a shopkeeper who specializes in pork; pork-chop (a) a thick slice of pork (usu. including a rib), esp. (to be) grilled; (b) US slang (derog.) a black American who accepts an inferior position in relation to white people; pork-chopper US slang (usu. derog.) a full-time union official; pork-eater Canad. History (a) a canoeist engaged on the run between Montreal and Grand Portage; (b) gen. any canoeist, esp. an inexperienced one; porkfish US & W. Indies any of several large edible fishes, esp. a black and yellow West Indian grunt, Anisotremus virginicus; pork-knocker (in Guyana) an independent prospector for gold or diamonds; porkman a dealer in pork; pork-pie (a) a raised pie of minced pork; (b) colloq. (in full pork pie hat) a hat with a flat crown and a brim turned up all round; (c) rhyming slang a lie (cf. PORKY noun2); porkwood a shrub or small tree of southern Africa, Kigellaria africana (family Flacourtiaceae), with pink wood.