| 单词 |
porker |
| 释义 |
porker|ˈpɔəkə(r)|
[f. pork1 + -er1 1.]
1. a. A young hog fattened for pork; also, any swine or pig raised for food.
1657Heylin Ecclesia Vind. 181 They sacrificed a swine or porker, with this solemn form. 1670Capt. J. Smith Eng. Improv. Reviv'd 195 Beech-mast is very good feeding for Swine to make them Porkers, and for Bacon. 1726Pope Odyss. xvii. 201 Then sheep and goats and bristly porkers bled. 1828Scott F.M. Perth ii, As round and full as a six-weeks' porker. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am ii, Even the pigs were the aristocracy of the porker tribe. 1884St. James' Gaz. 11 Dec. 12/1 The stock..consisted of..bacon hogs and porkers.
b. fig. A fat or porcine person.
1892[see Balzacian a.]. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 168 The unfortunate fat boy.., is known as: back end of a bus..porker, [etc.]. 1959Good Food Guide 42 So many restaurants in the Thames Valley have been ruined by the expense-account porkers, who neither care what they pay nor know what they eat.
†2. A sword. Obs. slang. (Cf. pigsticker, a long-bladed pocket-knife, or sword.)
1688Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia i. i, The Captain whipt his porker out. Ibid. ii. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Porker, a Sword. 1725in New Cant. Dict. |
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