English

Adjective

porky ‎(comparative porkier, superlative porkiest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of pork.
   • 2010, Victor J. Banis, The Blood of Love (page 113)

     It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.

2. (slang) Rather fat; chubby.
   • 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

     In front of Lister a small red-haired man, with a porky roll of flesh above his towel-top, was examining a line of girls.

Synonyms

• (rather fat): chubby, chunky, tubby

Translations

Etymology 2

Short for pork pie.

Noun

porky ‎(plural porkies)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang, in the plural) An eye.
   • 2015, Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bred in Wengen

     Fucked if I know, I never even clapped my little porkies on him before.