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Forky vs Porky - What's the difference?

forky | porky |

As adjectives the difference between forky and porky

is that forky is forked while porky is resembling or characteristic of pork.

As a noun porky is

(cockney rhyming slang) a lie.

forky

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • forked
  • * {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Abigail Stanley Hanna, title=Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The forky lightning flashed, and the deep toned thunder reverberated peal on peal, while the shrieking winds rocked the tree tops, and poured their wild melody upon the ear. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1896, author=Captain Frederick Marryat, title=The Phantom Ship, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The column of fire now ascended above the main-top--licking with its forky tongue the top-mast rigging--and embracing the mainmast in its folds: and the loud roar with which it ascended proved the violence and rapidity of the combustion below, and how little time there was to be lost. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Various, title=The Red Romance Book, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At the sight of the young man it lashed its tail so violently that the earth trembled as if with an earthquake, while its forky tongue darted in and out with a deafening hissing noise. }}

    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.