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porker

[pawr-ker, pohr-] / ˈpɔr kər, ˈpoʊr- /




NOUN
swine
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Today, that piglet is Tucker—a 200-pound porker who has outgrown the family bathroom, shredded a couch and required the installation of heavy-duty horse panels to keep him from escaping the yard of his Arizona home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

The escape became a ruckus, involving about 20 people, including six Sebastopol police officers, a farmer, three businessmen and a gaggle of children who all got into the porker pursuit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

The 450-pound porker wandered from his pen last week then moseyed on down the road, where he was caught hamming it up on the Molgaard family’s security camera.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

The escaped portly porker was found in the Southtown area of Great Yarmouth on Saturday.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2022

The porker had taken a right at East 42nd and was flying back toward Fifth Avenue.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

A breeze passes over the teeming feces and into hog houses holding 1,000 porkers or turkey barns filled with 20,000 birds.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023

Two runaway porkers, thought to be Vietnamese Pot-bellied pigs, hurt a golfer at Lightcliffe Golf Club, near Halifax, on Sunday, and the greens director when they returned on Sunday.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2021

The hungry porkers plunged their spade-like snouts into the soft turf; they can go three feet deep if the digging is good.

From Golf Digest ● Jul. 31, 2018

At most any state fair you’ll find thrills and chills, not to mention prize-winning pies, porkers, parades, and plush toys.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 29, 2015

All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell


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