porkling
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editporkling (plural porklings)
- (dated) A young pig; a porket.
- 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), 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.