Meaning

4 senses
  1. (uncountable)The meat of a pig.

    The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.

    Schweinefleisch, Schwein, Schweinernes

    свини́наsvinína

    свини́наsvynýna

    meat from a domestic hog or pig

  2. (US, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable)Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.

  3. (Multicultural London English, collective, countable, slang, uncountable)Law enforcement; those who side with criminal prosecution.

  4. A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.

Examples

243 sentences
  1. Tom doesn't eat pork, does he?

    Том не їсть свинину, еге ж?

    ruТом ведь не ест свинину?

    deTom isst kein Schweinefleisch, nicht wahr?

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  2. I don't think Tom eats pork.

    Не думаю, що Том їсть свинину.

    ruНе думаю, что Том ест свинину.

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  3. I eat a lot of pork.

    Я їм багато свинини.

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  4. Tom said he doesn't eat pork anymore.

    Том сказав, що він більше не їсть свинини.

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  5. Tom told me Mary didn't eat pork.

    Том сказав мені, що Мері не їсть свинину.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
meat of a pig:
Русский
By meaning 1
meat of a pig:
Deutsch
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meat of a pig:

Origin

From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig;

From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”).

Blend of pin + fork.

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