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Porket vs Porker - What's the difference?

porket | porker |

As nouns the difference between porket and porker

is that porket is a young hog; a pig while porker is a pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.

porket

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A young hog; a pig.
    • (John Dryden)
  • * 1838 , William Howitt, The Rural Life of England
    • his yards abound with poultry, and his fields with flocks and herds of kids, lambs, and porkets .

    porker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
  • *
    • All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers .
  • (slang, pejorative) An obese person.
  • (British, slang) A lie (from Cockney rhyming slang pork pie ). [Definition questioned: see discussion.]
    • Cockney rhyming slang