Meaning of PORK
| Pronunciation: | | powrk
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- [n] meat from a domestic hog or pig
- [n] a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
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| | Synonyms: | | porc, pork barrel |
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| | See Also: | | appropriation, cochon de lait, cut of pork, grunter, hog, meat, pig, pigs' feet, pigs' knuckles, pork loin, salt pork, squealer, suckling pig, Sus scrofa | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pork\, n. [F. porc, L. porcus hog, pig. See {Farrow} a
litter of pigs, and cf. {Porcelain}, {Porpoise}.]
The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.
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| | Related Terms: | | bacon, butt, chitterlings, cochon de lait, cracklings, fat back, favors of office, flitch, gammon, ham, ham steak, haslet, headcheese, jambon, jambonneau, lard, melon, patronage, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, plum, political patronage, pork barrel, porkpie, salt pork, side of bacon, small ham, sowbelly, suckling pig, trotters |
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