'Pork' definitions:
Definition of 'pork'
From: WordNet
noun
Meat from a domestic hog or pig [syn: pork, porc]
noun
A legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents [syn: pork barrel, pork]
Definition of 'Pork'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'pork'
From: GCIDE
- Hog \Hog\ (h[o^]g), n. [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor. houc'h, hoc'h. Cf. Haggis, Hogget, and Hoggerel.]
- 1. (Zool.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suid[ae]; esp., the domesticated varieties of {Sus scrofa}, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern Europe, are thought to have been derived from {Sus Indicus}. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made. [1913 Webster]
- Bush hog, Ground hog, etc.. See under Bush, Ground, etc.
- Hog caterpillar (Zool.), the larva of the green grapevine sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See Hawk moth.
- Hog cholera, an epidemic contagious fever of swine, attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. --Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser.)
- Hog deer (Zool.), the axis deer.
- Hog gum (Bot.), West Indian tree (Symphonia globulifera), yielding an aromatic gum.
- Hog of wool, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep of the second year.
- Hog peanut (Bot.), a kind of earth pea.
- Hog plum (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus Spondias (Spondias lutea), with fruit somewhat resembling plums, but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies.
- Hog's bean (Bot.), the plant henbane.
- Hog's bread.(Bot.) See Sow bread.
- Hog's fennel. (Bot.) See under Fennel.
- Mexican hog (Zool.), the peccary.
- Water hog. (Zool.) See Capybara. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pork'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bacon,
- butt,
- chitterlings,
- cochon de lait,
- cracklings,
- fat back,
- favors of office,
- flitch,
- gammon,
- ham,
- ham steak,
- haslet,
- headcheese,
- jambon,
- jambonneau,
- lard,
- melon,
- patronage,
- picnic ham,
- pieds de cochon,
- pig,
- plum,
- political patronage,
- pork barrel,
- porkpie,
- salt pork,
- side of bacon,
- small ham,
- sowbelly,
- suckling pig,
- trotters