porkish C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities US /ˈpɔrkɪʃ/ UK /ˈpɔːkɪʃ/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 adj resembling pork or a pig; piggish The dish had a faintly porkish flavor he couldn't place. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · resembling pork or a pig;... piggishswinishhoggishporcine Word family Forms porkishlyporkishness Related forms porkporkerporky Etymology AI details From pork + -ish. Pork derives from Old French porc ('pig, pork'), from Latin porcus ('pig'). porc Old French porcus Latin *porḱos Proto-Indo-European View etymology graph -> Topics Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # 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 - Describing Qualities - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown