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Porky vs Corky - What's the difference?

porky | corky |

As adjectives the difference between porky and corky

is that porky is resembling or characteristic of pork while corky is of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

As nouns the difference between porky and corky

is that porky is (cockney rhyming slang) a lie while corky is (au|slang) an injury caused by a blow ("corking").

porky

English

Etymology 1

From

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling or characteristic of pork.
  • * 2010 , Victor J. Banis, The Blood of Love (page 113)
    • It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.
  • (slang) Rather fat.
    • Synonyms
    * (rather fat) chubby, chunky, tubby

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from (pork pie)

    Noun

    (porkies)
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.

    • corky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
    • This one smells a bit corky ; get me another bottle.
  • Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Bind fast his corky arms.

    Synonyms

    * (like cork) suberose, suberous (in botany)

    Noun

    (corkies)
  • (AU, slang) An injury caused by a blow ("corking").

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