What is "porker"

Usage examples of "porker".

With a desire to drive away obtrusive thoughts, the captain had been much in his fields, and he was bethinking himself of making a large contribution to the good cause, in the way of fatted porkers, of which he had an unusual number, that he thought might yet be driven through the forest to Fort Stanwix, before the season closed.

Then in they trooped, the strutting serving-men, who split the firewood cleanly now as the women hustled in from the spring, the swineherd at their heels, driving three fat porkers, the best of all his herds.

M cooked up a very fine rib, but not quite equal to the artistry of Sporty Porkers.

Monk grasped his porker by one flapping ear and carried him, a grunting, suspicious and disgusted shote, toward the road.

When the carnage was over there were only nine, trussed ankle and wrist and lying belly down in the sand like porkers in the marketplace.

We joined a crowd going into a tent and there we saw my other old school acquaintance, Porker Plumstead, sitting mournfully in a corner with a cold collation on his knees.

And, somewhere among the mist around Hampstead, Porker Plumstead is locked in the lavatory with Health and Beauty.

Those succulent bivalves may help us and the truffles of Perigord, tubers dislodged through mister omnivorous porker, were unsurpassed in cases of nervous debility or viragitis.

I began by suggesting names like Porker, Tosh, Bugge, Spiffkins—the obvious sort.

But the advantages made it worth the while—hardly any porkers to bother you, hidey-holes galore, a friendly neighborhood (certainly no pestersome bullyboys!

Elvis wandered toward his mud hole at the side of the steps, an ingenious invention he and Alannah had put together when she’d first brought the noisy porker to his house.

Then, just as he'd finished, the porkers came into the cell looking for Muroidea, who had just been pardoned by the Queen and named her new Royal Adjudicator.

Of course, when he heard the porkers coming into the cell, natural and he'd had to take it on the lam, even forgetting to slit the Trio's throats, on account of how he must have figured the Queen's men were on to him and of course he couldn't afford to be caught and tortured where he might spill his guts because didn't Muroidea know every detail of the whole plot, even including the identity of the Dark Duke's mole in the highest levels of Ozar's greatest espionage agency, the Commission to Repel Unbridled Disruption?

Yet I could scarce choose but laugh, when my old master passed so near to me, dreaming all the while that Gurth was keeping his porkers many a mile off, in the thickets and swamps of Rotherwood.

But a new complexion was put upon the matter when to the perplexedly uncondemnatory bench (whereon punic judgeship strove with penal law) the senior king of all, Pegger Festy, as soon as the outer layer of stucckomuck had been removed at the request of a few live jurors, declared in a loudburst of poesy, through his Brythonic interpreter on his oath, mhuith peisth mhuise as fearra bheura muirre hriosmas, whereas take notice be the relics of the bones of the story bouchal that was ate be Cliopatrick (the sow) princess of parked porkers, afore God and all their honours and king's commons that .