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pork

//pɔːk//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for pork

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
porks

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
pork
past (v2)
porked
past participle (v3)
porked
present participle
porking
3rd person singular
porks

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.The meat of a pig.

    • The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.
  2. 2.Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.(slang)

  3. 3.Law enforcement; those who side with criminal prosecution.(slang)

  4. 4.A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To have sex with (someone).(slang)

    • Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!
    • You know, I can't remember just how I discovered doorknobs, but as a teenager I used to pork myself on a particular one, a nice, smooth round one, from time to time.

Frequency

Overall

Rare· #4766

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Rare
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos

Proto-Italic *porkos

Latin porcus

Old French porcbor.

Middle English pork

English pork

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