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Word of the Day – Porket

By August 1, 2021Word of the Day

Porket (noun)

por-ket

A small or young pig. Now chiefly English regional (midlands) and US.

Mid 16th century; earliest use found in John Bradford (c1510–1555), evangelical preacher and martyr. Probably from pork + -et, after Anglo-Norman and Middle French porchet small pig, piglet (1258 in Old French; 1611 in French as †porquet or post-classical Latin porchetum, porchettus.

Example sentences

“Little porket running around the pen.”

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