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Porkier vs Porkies - What's the difference?

porkier | porkies |

As an adjective porkier

is comparative of porky.

As a noun porkies is

plural of porky.

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.

    • porkies

    English

    Noun

    (head)