pork, v.
1. trans. Eng. regional. To fatten (a pig) for eating as pork. Also with
away.
rare.
1877 E. PEACOCK Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham , Lincs. 196/2
Pork, to fatten pigs for pork.
1888 F. T. ELWORTHY W. Somerset Word-bk. 589, I s'pose you'll
pork away thick lot o' little pigs.
2. intr. colloq. (orig.
U.S.).
a. to pork up: to gain weight.
1967 Syracuse (N.Y.)
Herald-Jrnl. 8 Sept. 14/8 Marcello Mastroianni (who has porked up a bit lately..) turned up at the King's Club.
1993 S. KING
Dolores Claiborne 44 She'd porked up a lot, you see
went from a hundred and thirty or so in the early sixties to a hundred and ninety.
2002 Times (Nexis) 27 Jan. (Features section) 3 In Circle of Friends she porked up to play a mildly lardy wench.
b. to pork out: to eat gluttonously, gorge oneself (
on). Cf. PIG
v. 4.
1979 Barnard Bull. (Barnard Coll., Columbia Univ., N.Y.) 15/1 (
advt.) Porking out on cookie sales at the campus grocery.
1985 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 29 Nov., When people are through porking out, that's when we start getting the paramedic calls.
1999 J. COPE
Repossessed 20 We porked out on home-made chocolate chip cookies and sweet apple pies.
3. slang (orig.
U.S.).
a. intr. To engage in sexual intercourse.
1968 C. F. BAKER et al.
College Undergraduate Slang Study (typescript),
Pork, have sexual intercourse.
1972 G. LUKAS et al.
Amer. Graffiti (film script) 76 They're porking in the weeds.
1997 Esquire Oct. 27/1 There was a time..when the president could pork with impunity without anyone making a federal case out of it.
2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 4 May, Me and your bruv have been porking for months.
b. trans. Of a man: to engage in sexual intercourse with. Cf. PORK
n.1 1d.
1978 C. MILLER
National Lampoon's Animal House (
screenplay) 11 Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond?
1984 E. JONG
Parachutes & Kisses vi. 98 That did not mean he did not have
other problems far worse than the dark compulsion to pork males.
2002 Total Film Mar. 56/1 Getting in lots of brawls, swashing buckles and porking chambermaids.
4. intr. U.S. Polit. To load (a federal spending bill, etc.) with (esp. unnecessary) items intended to direct funds to favoured districts or causes; cf. PORK
n.1 1b. Chiefly with
up.
1987 Congress. Q. Weekly Rep. 24 Oct. 2591/3, I don't blame people for porking if there's an opportunity to pork.
1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin)
Sentinel (Electronic ed.) 16 Mar. 9A, Instead of ‘porking up’ the budget bill with hundreds of controversial issues and special-interest favors, they actually set most of those changes aside for separate action.
2002 BusinessWeek 23 Dec. 41/1 If the cardinals, known for porking up pet projects, don't hold the line on discretionary spending in 2003, the Right will go after them.