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 2. (tailors').—A garment spoiled in cutting or making; goods returned on hand: also pig: cf. cold pig.

3. (venery).—Mutton (q.v.): cf. Flesh, Meat, Greens, Beef, Fish, &c.

To cry pork, verb. phr. (old).—To act as undertaker's tout.—Grose (1785).

Porker, subs. (common).—1. A young hog.—Grose (1785).

1725. Pope, Odyssey, xiv. 86. Where the fat porkers slept beneath the sun.

2. (old).—A Jew.—Grose (1785).

3. (old).—A sword.—B. E. (c.1696).

1688. Shad well, Sq. of Alsatia, i. [Works (1720), iv. 18]. The captain whipt his porker out

Porkopolis, subs. (American).—Chicago: formerly Cincinnatti: cf. Cottonopolis.

1888. American Humourist, Aug. Since Cincinnatti ceased to be Porkopolis.

1901. Daily Telegraph, 7 Jan., 8, 4. The firm of Armour and Co. is one of the chief of those huge meat-packing concerns which have given to Chicago its epithet of "Porkopolis."

Pork-pie, subs. phr. (obsolete).—A hat: modish in the Sixties. [In shape resembling a pork-pie, or the Spanish 'toreador,' fashionable in the Nineties.]

186[?]. Music Hall Song, 'In the Strand.' A pork-pie hat with a little feather.

1860. Punch, xxxix. 118. 'O, look here, Bill; here's a swell with a Pork-pie on his head!"

1863. Braddon, Aurora Floyd, xii. She rode across country, wearing a hat which provoked considerable criticism,—a hat which was no other than the now universal turban, or pork pie, but which was new to the world in the autumn of fifty-eight.

1869. C. Reade, Foul Play, xxxii. She made herself a sealskin jacket and pork-pie hat.

1883. Bret Harte, In the Carquinez Woods, iv. The hat thus procured a few days later became, by the aid of a silk handkerchief and a blue-jay's feather, a fascinating pork-pie.

Porpoise, subs. (common).—A stout man; fortyguts (q.v.) = Fr. Saint-Lichard, or Saint-Pansart.

Porridge. To cook the porridge, verb. phr. (Scots').—To contrive and execute a design.

1814. Scott, Waverley, iii. 354. 'But wha cookit the parridge for him?' exclaimed the Bailie, 'I wad like to ken that:—wha, but your honour's to command.'

See Breath.

Porridge-bowl, subs. phr. (common). The stomach; the breadbasket (q.v.); see Victualling Office.

Porridge-disturber, sub. phr. (pugilistic).—A drive in the pit of the stomach.

Portable, adv. (old).—'Pocketable.'—B. E. (c.1696).

Portage, subs. (old: now recognised).—'Carriage of anything, whether by land or water.'—B. E. (c.1696).

Portal to the Bower of Bliss, subs. phr. (literary).—The female pudendum: see Monosyllable.