喜樂美語

porky is simply pork with -y on the end: having something of pork about it. On food that is literal — the smell or the taste a piece of pork puts into the pot. On a person it becomes a comparison to the animal: soft and round, said as a joke and usually about oneself, though the pig is still in there and can sting. The third meaning does not come from the pig at all. It comes from a rhyme: pork pie rhymes with lie, and the pie was dropped.

可以想成 porky 就是 pork 加上 -y：帶著一點豬肉的樣子。講食物的時候是字面的——鍋裡那股豬肉的味道。講人的時候就變成比喻：圓圓軟軟的，多半是開玩笑，而且多半是講自己；但「像豬」這層意思還在，對別人說可能會刺人。至於「謊話」那個意思，跟豬完全沒有關係，是從押韻來的：pork pie 跟 lie 押韻，再把 pie 省掉，就剩下 porky。

From the word’s history

The adjective is pork plus -y; pork goes back through Old French porc to Latin porcus, a pig. The noun meaning a lie is a different route: a clipping of the rhyming-slang pork pie.

形容詞這條線是 pork 加上 -y；pork 經過古法文 porc，往前接到拉丁文 porcus（豬）。名詞「謊話」那條線不一樣，是把押韻俚語 pork pie 砍掉後半段留下來的。兩條線只有 pork 這個字面相同，意思上沒有延伸關係。

Wiktionary, "porky"

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同家族的字

a porkier porkiest

n porkies

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

porkyadj詞源 1/ˈpɔː(ɹ).ki/

  • 1

    Resembling or characteristic of pork.

    • It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.
  • 2

    slangRather fat; chubby.

    • 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.

porkynoun詞源 2/ˈpɔː(ɹ).ki/

  • 1

    slangA lie.

    • When she turned up at the lab, she gave us a sprawling prepared presentation relying heavily on anecdotal evidence, where it wasn't relying on skewed statistics, unfounded claims and outright porkies.
  • 2

    slangAn eye.

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

porkynoun詞源 3/ˈpɔː(ɹ).ki/

  • 1

    informalA porcupine.

    • The irate Ranger killed thirteen porcupines chewing away on his front porch, and still they came, the salt proving an irresistible lure. In this same district a porky pulled the most impudent stunt of all.
    • Although porcupines lack the ability to throw their quills, they do have the capacity to raise and lower them at will. When threatened, a porky elevates its quills so that it bristles like some sort of mammalian cactus with giant spines.

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