porkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɔːk/
• (General American) IPA: /poɹk/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /po(ː)ɹk/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /poək/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)k

語源 1

From 中期英語 pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”).

Cognate with 古期英語 fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken.

Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.

US politics sense is related to pork barrel.

名詞

pork (countable and uncountable, plural porks)

1. (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.

   Synonyms: pigflesh, pigmeat, swineflesh, swinemeat, the other white meat

   The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.

2. (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
3. (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution

   Synonyms: bacon, pigs, swine; see also Thesaurus:police

   Meronym: porky (“one member of law enforcement, policeman”)

派生語

関連する語

• porcine

派生した語

• → Japanese: ポーク (pōku)

参考

• bacon
• ham
• pig
• porcupine
• swine

動詞

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

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Boon (Peter Riegert), Universal Pictures:

     Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!

   • 1989 February 12, Vanessa Nemeth, Stephanie Poggi, “Fun With The Electro-Lux And Other Masturbation Stories”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 9:

     You know, I can't remember just how I discovered doorknobs, but as a teenager I used to pork myself on a particular one — a nice, smooth round one — from time to time.

語源 2

Blend of pin +‎ fork.

名詞

pork (plural porks)

1. (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.

参照

語源

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus. Compare farowen.

発音

• IPA: /pɔrk/, /pɔːrk/

名詞

pork (plural porkes)

1. pork (pig meat)
2. swine, pig

派生した語

• English: pork
• Scots: pork, porc, porck

参照

• “pork(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.