porky

Porky is used to describe food as having the flavor of pork (the meat from a pig), as in The bacon gives the dish a nice porky flavor. 

This sense of the word can be applied to dishes that have a prominent pork flavor or to pork itself when its flavor is strong, as in I think a lot of sausage is bland, but this is so flavorful—really nice and porky. 

The word porky can also be used as a way to call someone chubby. This may be intended to be funny, but it’s always insulting to compare someone to a pig.

In the U.S., porky is used in some places as a slang term for porcupine.

In the U.K., porky is used as a slang term meaning a lie, as in I think he’s telling a porky. 

Example: I like my ramen to be extra porky, so I doubled the amount of pork belly in it.

The first records of the word porky come from the 1800s. The suffix -y is used to form adjectives. In the case of porky, it’s used to indicate a strong pork flavor. The suffix is used in the same way in the word beefy.

The origin of the British slang term porky in reference to a lie is much less straightforward. It’s an example of rhyming slang, in which a word is substituted with a common phrase that it rhymes with. In many cases, that phrase that the word has been replaced with is then shortened. In this case, the word lie is replaced with pork pie, which is then often shortened to porky (or porkie).

What are some other forms related to porky?

• porkier (comparative adjective)
• porkiest (superlative adjective)

What are some synonyms for porky?

• chubby
• plump
• porcupine
• fib
• lie

What are some words that share a root or word element with porky? 

• pork

What are some words that often get used in discussing porky?

• flavor
• dish
• bacon
• sausage
• food
• pig

Porky is used to describe the flavor of dishes that includes pork, such as by a chef on a cooking show.

#restogastro chicharrones wcheddar cheese powder. Crispy, nice porky flavor. Still prefer crispy pork skin, not fried pic.twitter.com/IZyZFlmNQP

— Aenki (@AenkiEats) May 9, 2015

Tasted my first bits of cured, seasoned, pork fat this evening. Delicious. White slab o' porky essence w/spices.

— Bill Bumgarner (@bbum) December 26, 2008

When they start a sentence with "We have always believed .." – you know a politician is about to tell a porky #qanda

— Linda White ✊️ (@lindawhiteaus) May 15, 2017

Is porky used correctly in the following sentence? 

This is surprisingly not that porky considering how much pork is in it.