different between pigmeat vs pork

English

Etymology

pig +? meat

Noun

pigmeat (usually uncountable, plural pigmeats)

1. The meat or flesh of a pig, used especially for food; pork.
   • 1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Penguin (1988), Perigee Books, ?ISBN, page 151:

     A fire burned on the rock and fat dripped from the roasting pigmeat into the invisible flames.

   • 1995, George Reigel, "Updates", Field & Stream, September 1995:

     The real purpose of this exorbitant barrel of pigmeat is to placate West Virginia politicians who complain their state doesn't get enough pork.

   • 2001, Lee Langley, Distant Music, Vintage (2002), ?ISBN, page 299:

     'Oh, Gideon, you know why. I do think that on the day you're taking the kosher plunge you should keep off the pigmeat.'

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pigmeat.

Synonyms

• swineflesh

English

Etymology

From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”), from Proto-Indo-European *pór?os (“young swine, young pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“young pig, hog”). More at farrow.

Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.

US politics sense is related to pork barrel.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??k/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(?)?k/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po?k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Noun

pork (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) The meat of a pig; swineflesh.

   Synonyms: pigmeat, swineflesh, the other white meat

2. (US politics, slang, derogatory) 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.
3. (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution

   Synonyms: bacon, pigs, swine; see also Thesaurus:police

   Meronym: porky (“one member of law enforcement, policeman”)

4. (slang) A shag; a fuck; an act of coitus.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Derived terms

Related terms

• porcine

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (p?ku)

Translations

See also

• bacon
• ham
• pig
• porcupine
• swine

Verb

pork (third-person singular simple present porks, present participle porking, simple past and past participle porked)

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• porc

Etymology

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?rk/

Noun

pork (plural porks)

1. pork; pig meat
2. swine, pig

Descendants

• English: pork
• Scots: pork, porc, porck

References

• “pork(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.