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Porky vs Porkiness - What's the difference?

porky | porkiness |

As nouns the difference between porky and porkiness

is that porky is (cockney rhyming slang) a lie while porkiness is the quality of being porky.

As an adjective porky

is resembling or characteristic of pork.

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.

    • porkiness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being porky.
  • * 2004 , Stephen Fife, Best revenge (page 19)
    • It would be like a Macy's Thanksgiving Day balloon in a small room — Porky Pig blown to his full girth, crushing everyone inside with his porkiness .
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 3, author=Harold Mcgee, title=Bringing Flavor Back to the Ham, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Have you ever placed a vanishingly thin morsel of rosy meat on your tongue and had it fill your mouth with deepest porkiness , or the aroma of tropical fruits, or caramel, or chocolate? }}