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Perkier vs Porkier - What's the difference?

perkier | porkier |

As adjectives the difference between perkier and porkier

is that perkier is comparative of perky while porkier is comparative of porky.

perkier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (perky)

    • perky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Lively or enthusiastic.
    • She answered with a perky smile and bounced off.
  • Standing upright; firm.
    • The plant looks much perkier since I watered it.
    perky breasts

    See also

    * perk * perk up

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    porkier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (porky)

    • 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.