porky

adjective

1. 1

   Resembling or characteristic of pork.

   It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.

2. 2

   slangRather fat; chubby.

   In front of Lister a small red-haired man, with a porky roll of flesh above his towel-top, was examining a line of girls.

noun

1. 1

   Also a form of porkslangsingulative of pork (“law enforcement”)

noun

1. 1

   slangA lie.

   When she turned up at the lab, she gave us a sprawling prepared presentation relying heavily on anecdotal evidence, where it wasn't relying on skewed statistics, unfounded claims and outright porkies.

2. 2

   slangAn eye.

   Fucked if I know, I never even clapped my little porkies on him before.

noun

1. 1

   informalA porcupine.

   The irate Ranger killed thirteen porcupines chewing away on his front porch, and still they came, the salt proving an irresistible lure. In this same district a porky pulled the most impudent stunt of all.

   Although porcupines lack the ability to throw their quills, they do have the capacity to raise and lower them at will. When threatened, a porky elevates its quills so that it bristles like some sort of mammalian cactus with giant spines.

   He snarled, and the porky looked to be running away but swung his tail and put about twenty-five quills in the side of our dog’s face.

Forms

plural

porkies

comparative

porkier

superlative

porkiest