Definition of "porky" [porky]

• Of or like pork: a porky flavor. (adjective)
• Slang Fat or corpulent. (adjective)
• Informal A porcupine. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Knowing bully breeds as I do and seeing how many quills are in the dog, I can just about guarantee that porky is playing a harp somewhere …"
• ""porky" - and are having a wordplay field day with the $375,000 court judgment."
• "First the term 'porky' was coined, followed by 'jumbo,' and then 'butterball.'"