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Porkiest vs Dorkiest - What's the difference?

porkiest | dorkiest |

As adjectives the difference between porkiest and dorkiest

is that porkiest is superlative of porky while dorkiest is superlative of dorky.

porkiest

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.

    • dorkiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (dorky)

    • dorky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Like a dork, or having a dork's characteristics.
  • * 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.
  • * 1998 , Dana Redfield, Lucy Blue and the Daughters of Light ISBN 9781571741073
    • Anyway this dorky guy asks Sallyfrass to dance and she kind of likes him...