different between porket vs porker

English

Etymology

Diminutive of French porc. See pork.

Noun

porket (plural porkets)

1. (archaic) A young hog; a pig.

   • Adorned in white, a reverend priest appears, And offerings to the flaming altars bears— ; A porket, and a lamb that never suffered shears.

   • 1838, William Howitt, The Rural Life of England

     […] his yards abound with poultry, and his fields with flocks and herds of kids, lambs, and porkets.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• porke

Etymology

From Blend of porke +? at = porke't. porke itself is from Spanish porque.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: por?ket

Conjunction

porket

1. just because

English

Etymology

From pork +? -er.

• (obese person; police officer): Carried over from the same senses of pig.
• (a lie): Extension of the rhyming slang pork pie.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??k?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??k?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)k?(r)

Noun

porker (plural porkers)

1. A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
   • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

     Jerry Lynch, a pig's head pickled. Term usually applied to the long Irish heads which are sent over here for sale in the poorer districts of London, and which are vastly different from the heads of “dairy-fed” porkers.

   • All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers.

2. (slang, derogatory) An obese person.
3. (Britain, Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.
4. (US, slang, derogatory) A police officer.

Anagrams

• proker