porkish

C2+ Topic:Animals

US /ˈpɔrkɪʃ/ UK /ˈpɔːkɪʃ/ See IPA manual

adj

Meanings

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adj
resembling pork or a pig; piggish

The dish had a faintly porkish flavor he couldn't place.

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Synonyms

1 adj · resembling pork or a pig;... piggishswinish hoggish porcine

Word family

Forms porkishlyporkishness

Related forms porkporkerporky

Etymology

From pork + -ish. Pork derives from Old French porc ('pig, pork'), from Latin porcus ('pig').

porc Old French porcus Latin *porḱos Proto-Indo-European

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# porkish

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** ˈpɔrkɪʃ
**IPA (UK):** ˈpɔːkɪʃ

## Meanings
1. resembling pork or a pig; piggish

## Examples
- The dish had a faintly porkish flavor he couldn't place.

## Synonyms
- piggish
- swinish
- hoggish
- porcine

## Related Forms
- pork
- porker
- porky

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: porc
- Root: porcus
- Root: *porḱos

## Etymology
From pork + -ish. Pork derives from Old French porc ('pig, pork'), from Latin porcus ('pig').

## AI Etymology
Porkish is from pork + -ish. Pork derives from Old French porc ('pig, pork'), from Latin porcus ('pig'). Important recorded forms include porc (Old French), porcus (Latin), and *porḱos (Proto-Indo-European). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers resembling pork or a pig; piggish. The wider family includes related words such as pork, porker, and porky.

## Topics
- Animals
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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