Middle English Dictionary Entry
pork(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pork(e n. Also porc. |
| Etymology | OF porc & L porcus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The flesh of swine used for food, pork; also, an edible organ of a hog; carnel of ~ [see carnel n. (2)]; tame ~, meat from domesticated hogs; (b) a swine, hog; ~ hog, a hog that has been fattened for butchering; carcais of ~; (c) a hog carcass; (d) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Magd.(2) (LdMisc 108)344 : Huy nomen with heom..porc, motoun, and beof.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)265b/a : Boores [meat] is more hard & druye and more cold þan tame pork [L porcina domestica].
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)51 : The seek man..sal..ete no gees..na na maner of beef no porke.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)425 : Take the lefe of porke sethen, and other porke..and grynde hit.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)409 : Poork, flesche: Suilla.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)156 : Þou shalt ȝeue þe sike man wortes y-nowe þat fat porke haþ be soden in.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)55/13 : Take malewys, borage, and violet, and make wortys þer-of, and sethe þer-inne fresch pork.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.9 : Take hennes and fresshe porke.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)53/3 : There beþ two kyndis of flesche meltyd, scilicet, one whiche is meltyd be craft, as porke or syche that is boylid or fried; The toþer is naturaly meltyd, as chese or mylke.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)144a/b : Leue þai recent fruytez..crude porc [Ch.(2): swynes; L porcinas] flesh, & fish.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)203 : Of eche carcays of pork and of motoun and of veel bought with oute the toun, qua.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3121 : Pouerall and pastorelles passede on aftyre With porkes to pasture at the price ȝates.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)3837 : Polidarius was pluccid as a porke fat.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)295/4 : He shall be as fatte at the twelve-monthe ende as a porke hog.
c
- (a1425) Stonor1.40 : Vetalls þe same day. Halfe a oxe, iiij s., Halfe a porke, xij d.
d
- (1215) Close R.Tower 1191b : Galfridus le Porkuiller.