Sunday, September 30, 2012

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: pork

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* Russian: {{t+|ru|свинина|f|tr=svinína}}

 

* Russian: {{t+|ru|свинина|f|tr=svinína}}

 

* Scottish Gaelic: {{t-|gd|feòil-muice|f}}

 

* Scottish Gaelic: {{t-|gd|feòil-muice|f}}

* Serbian: {{t-|sr|svinjetina|f}}

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* Serbo-Croatian: {{t|sh|svinjetina|f}}

 

* Spanish: {{t+|es|cerdo|m}}

 

* Spanish: {{t+|es|cerdo|m}}

 

* Swahili: [[kitimoto]] ''(noun 7)'', {{t-|sw|nyama ya nguruwe}}

 

* Swahili: [[kitimoto]] ''(noun 7)'', {{t-|sw|nyama ya nguruwe}}


Latest revision as of 10:44, 30 September 2012

Contents

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman from Old French porc ("swine, hog, pig", also "pork"), from Latin porcus ("domestic hog, pig"), from Proto-Indo-European *porḱ- ("young swine, young pig"). Cognate with Old English fearh ("young pig, hog"). More at farrow.

English from the 14th century, as a term of abuse from the 17th century.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

pork (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) The meat of a pig; swineflesh.
  2. (US, politics, slang) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or his or her constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Related terms

[edit] Translations

meat of a pig

opportunist political appropriation

[edit] See also

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[edit] Verb

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

  1. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex (with someone)

[edit] Synonyms

See Wikisaurus:sexual intercourse

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