English

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Etymology

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From pork +‎ -man.

Noun

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porkman (plural porkmen)

  1. a person who produces and sells pork.
    • 1845, Thomas Morton, Seeing Wright. A farce in one act, etc, page 12:
      You said distinctly, “I shall see Wright," madam, and in our peculiar position, I should be wrong not to insist on knowing who is Wright. Susan. Wright! —oh, perhaps I did — Wright's the name of the porkman. Downey. The porkman's Wright, is he?
    • 2007, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Penguin, →ISBN, page 34:
      The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
    • 2011, Clarke Church, Forebears and Antecedents: A Family History, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 77:
      He is now 14 and still living in Henley, but now in the home of William Horsley—a “grocer and porkman.”