swinemeat

English

Etymology

From swine +‎ meat.

Pronunciation

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Noun

swinemeat (uncountable)

1. (rare) The meat of a pig.

   Synonyms: pigflesh, pigmeat, pork, swineflesh

   • 1745, Richard Latham, edited by Lorna Weatherill, The Account Book of Richard Latham, 1724–1767 (Records of Social and Economic History, New Series XV), Oxford, Oxon: […] [F]or The British Academy by Oxford University Press, published 1990, →ISBN, page 61, line 91:

     head & pluck 4½d: suger 6d: swinemeat 6d

   • 1963, Irving Layton, “History as a Slice of Ham”, in Balls for a One-Armed Juggler, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart Limited, →OCLC, page 25:

     The Hebes, out by only one, suffered macerations and death, being closest to the truth. Ah, Jesu, jewboy worshipped in cloisters: abhorring oysters and swinemeat, they offended their gentle neighbours.

   • 1969, Irving Layton, “Obs I”, in The Whole Bloody Bird (Obs, Aphs & Pomes), Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart Limited, →OCLC, page 20:

     The Druses trace their descent from Jethro, the Midianite father-in-law of Moses. They are monotheists whose religion prohibits them the use of alcohol, tobacco, and swinemeat.

   • 1993, C. P. R. Tisdale, “Deorwente [Early Autumn AD 626]”, in Month of Swallows: Northumbria, England, A.D. 626–633, Edinburgh, […]: The Pentland Press Limited, →ISBN, page 46:

     The maidservants had provided them with ale, and wooden plates of swinemeat and bread.

   • 1998, Peter Edmund Stanley, “The Stanleys of Moor Hall, near Aughton, Lancashire”, in The House of Stanley: The History of an English Family from the 12th Century, Edinburgh, […]: The Pentland Press, →ISBN, page 94:

     To his eldest son and heir, Edward (then over thirty years of age), and Katherine, his son’s wife and their two children, Jane and Elizabeth, he made various bequests, including all the furnishings of Moor Hall, a chest in the great chamber, all armour and furniture for war, and one great stone used for the preservation of swinemeat.

   • 2014, Andi Thomas, Alexander Netherton, “International Break 1”, in This Does Not Slip: A Diary of the 2013/14 Premier League, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire: Ockley Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 34:

     Instead of racing one another to see who could down oysters the fastest, they improvised, and started simply opening their gullets and pouring in the processed swinemeat.

Translations

meat of a pig — see pork