pork
Significat (anglès)
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- The meat of a pig.
- (slang) 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.
- (slang) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/pɔːk/
Etimologia (anglès)
From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken. Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century. US politics sense is related to pork barrel. The verb is from the black American form of poke.
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