porky
porky Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Informally, fat, plump, or overweight.
"The old dog had grown quite porky from eating too many table scraps."
Resembling pork in flavor, texture, or appearance.
"The rich broth had a distinctly porky flavor after simmering with ham hocks for hours."
• noun
British A lie or untruth (often used in the plural).
"He admitted that he had told a few porkies on his job application."
North American Informal term for a porcupine, a large herbivorous rodent of the families Erethizontidae or Hystricidae protected by sharp defensive quills.
"The cabin owner spotted a slow-moving porky gnawing on the wooden porch steps."
• Rhymes for porky
Word Origin & Etymology
The adjective is a transparent derivative of 'pork' plus '-y'. The British slang noun sense meaning 'a lie' is a shortening of 'pork pie', which originated as Cockney rhyming slang for 'lie'.