Porky vs Worky - What's the difference?
porky | worky |
Resembling or characteristic of pork.
* 2010 , Victor J. Banis, The Blood of Love (page 113)
(slang) Rather fat.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.
(informal) Of or pertaining to work; tending to be too serious about work.
As adjectives the difference between porky and worky
is that porky is resembling or characteristic of pork while worky is (informal) of or pertaining to work; tending to be too serious about work.As a noun porky
is (cockney rhyming slang) a lie.porky
English
Etymology 1
FromAdjective
(er)- It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.
Synonyms
* (rather fat) chubby, chunky, tubbyEtymology 2
Shortened from (pork pie)Noun
(porkies)worky
English
Adjective
(er)- Angelo has created an important deadline so he is all worky today.