Workling vs Porkling - What's the difference?
workling | porkling |
One who is employed or who works; worker.
*1857 , Thomas Hughes Milner, The Christian advocate, ed. by T.H. Milner - Page 171 :
*1901 , Transportation-Communication Employees Union, Trans-communicator - Volume 18 - Page 123 :
*1978 , South Africa. Dept. of Education. Adult Education Division, Lantern - Volumes 28-29 - Page 86 :
*2005 , James R. Moulton, Peter the Great and the Russian military campaigns :
*2007 , Matthew Woods, The Chrysalis Time :
As nouns the difference between workling and porkling
is that workling is one who is employed or who works; worker while porkling is a pig; a porket.workling
English
Noun
(en noun)- Among its trophies it can point to penitent blasphemers, reclaimed drunkards, reformed prostitutes, and awakened worklings .
- Not into land's expansion, Not to the miser's chest, Not to the princely mansion, Not to the blazoned crest, Not to the sordid workling , Not to the knavish clown, Not to the haughty tyrant, Cometh n blessing down.
- The worklings can be seen on the slopes of the koppie in the left background Kamiesberg - which Fannin visited Fannin 's Mine today.
- Here are five master-builders besides worklings , all british [sic] subjects; three are masters reckoned as good carpenters as any we have in Great-Britain, and considering that all of them are good subjects, [...]
- A bloody nation pushed empathy of a sight-sighing gargoyle smile from up high by lung-lapped seagull soars and swells its raffle high in the sky made for worklings . The lantern well fits the mist of design from the rocky swing of flying whiles.