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Pork vs Dork - What's the difference?

pork | dork |

As nouns the difference between pork and dork

is that pork is the meat of a pig; swineflesh while dork is a penis.

As a verb pork

is to have sex with (someone).

pork

English

Noun

(-)
  • (uncountable) The meat of a pig; swineflesh.
    • Muslims are not allowed to eat pork .
  • (US, politics, slang, pejorative) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or his or her constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.

    • Synonyms

    * (meat of a pig) pigmeat, swineflesh

    Derived terms

    * long pork * (US political slang) pork barrel * pork chop * pork pie * pork sword * porker * porky * sea pork

    Related terms

    * porcine

    See also

    (wikipedia pork) * bacon * ham * pig * porcupine * swine

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually, of a male) To have sex with (someone).

    • Synonyms

    * See

    References

    dork

    English

    Etymology 1

    US 1960s, sense of "silly person" presumably from earlier use as bowdlerization of Lawrence Poston, “ Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang,” American Speech 39, no. 2 (May 1964) (JSTOR 453113): p. 118.Historical Dictionary of American Slang, v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994), p. 638.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1962 , Jerome Weidman, The Sound of Bow Bells page 362:
    • As a matter of fact, this slob was full of information today. He told me why we Jews have different dorks .
  • * 2005 , Mike Judge, Reading Sucks: The Collected Works of Beavis and Butthead :
    • "There's that dork whose wife cut off his dork ." And when people ask him for an autograph he writes, "Best of luck to Betsy. Signed, the guy whose wife cut off his penis."
  • * 1962 , Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad page 167:
    • I entitled the piece "Dorky", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.
  • * 1967 , Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson:
    • I didn’t have any clothes and I had short hair and looked like a dork . Girls wouldn’t go out with me.
    Usage notes
    Narrowly used to indicate someone inept or out of touch, broadly used to mean simply “silly, foolish”; compare (doofus), (twit).
    Derived terms
    * dorkface * to dorkify * dorkwad * dorky
    Synonyms
    * See also * See also

    Etymology 2

    Uncertain; apparently from (etyl). See (dirk).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label)

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