porkling
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
porkling (plural porklings)
- (dated) A young pig; a porket.
- 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
- And serue thee in winter, more ouer than that,
to shut vp thy porklings thou mindest to fat
References edit
- “porkling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.