| 单词 | porkling |
| 释义 | porkling|ˈpɔəklɪŋ|
Also 6–7 porklin.
[f. pork1 + -ling1.]
A little or young pig.
1570Levins Manip. 137/31 These be diminutiues, and may be expounded by this signe little, as gosling, or little goose, porkling or little porke. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 148 b, Twelve hogsties, everie stie conteyning fiftie Porklinges. 1598Florio, Maranello, a young pig, or a porklin. 1684tr. Agrippa's Van. Arts lxxxix. 309 The other..devoured a whole Boar, a hundred Loaves, a Weather, and a Porkling. 1843P. Parley's Ann. IV. 267 The little porkling might have squeezed his way through the palings. 1898Blackw. Mag. Feb. 231/2 A mottled porkling crashed through a little rug of branches.
b. Contemptuously or derisively applied to a person. Also attrib.
1542Becon Potation for Lent K viij, The fat Pharise..the porkelynge Justiciarie, whiche trust in theyr owne righteousnes, are no fytte Gestes for this mooste delicious table. 1550Bale Image Both Ch. ii. 92 b, The gloryouse glottons, and franke fedde porkelynges of that gredye gulfe..whose God ye their bellye. 1602Contention Betw. Liberality & Prodigal. v. i. in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 369 Come, porkling, come on. |
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