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Porny vs Porky - What's the difference?

porny | porky |

As adjectives the difference between porny and porky

is that porny is (informal) pornographic while porky is resembling or characteristic of pork.

As a noun porky is

(cockney rhyming slang) a lie.

porny

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (informal) Pornographic.
  • * 2014 , Julie Bindel, All you lesbians behaving badly – are strip clubs what liberation is for?'' (in ''The Guardian online, 30 June 2014)
    • When I was a young lesbian feminist campaigning to overthrow patriarchy, what irked me most was the fact that some men would impose their own idiotic view of my sexuality on me, by asking if I would perform threesomes with them, or titillate them with a porny kissing display with my girlfriend.

    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.