porker
UK/ˈpɔːkə/US/ˈpɔɹkɚ/
porker noun: a pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
Noun
porker (plural porkers)
- A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
- Jerry Lynch, a pig's head pickled. Term usually applied to the long Irish heads which are sent over here for sale in the poorer districts of London, and which are vastly different from the heads of “dairy-fed” porkers.1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
- In every vacant space new houses are being built, and all sorts of odd little cooking-sheds are erected against the old ones, while in some out-of-the-way corners, massive log pigsties are tenanted by growing porkers; for how can the Chinamen exist six months without one feast of pig?1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 214
- An obese person.
- Synonyms:
- All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, butterball, chod, chodder, chubbs, chubster, chunker, chunky monkey, elephant, fat
- A lie.
- A police officer.
porker meaning in Tamil
porker in Tamil
- இறைச்சிப்பன்றி
Synonyms of porker
- All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled
- butterball
- chod
- chodder
- chubbs
- chubster
- chunker
- chunky monkey
- elephant
- fat
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Forms of porker
| plural | porkers |
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Origin of porker
From pork + -er. * (obese person; police officer): Carried over from the same senses of pig. * (a lie): Extension of the rhyming slang pork pie.
Words that rhyme with porker
Questions about porker
- What does porker mean?
- Porker means a pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
- What is porker in Tamil?
- Porker in Tamil is இறைச்சிப்பன்றி. See Porker meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is porker?
- Porker is a noun.
- How do you pronounce porker?
- Porker is pronounced /ˈpɔːkə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of porker?
- The plural of porker is porkers.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: porker (page history and authors); porker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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