Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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PORK, v., n.
I. v. To prod, poke, push, thrust (at); of a bird: to peck, to damage by pecking; of a cow, etc.: to prod with the horns, gore (sm.Sc., Rxb. 1966).Dmf. 1861 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (1863) 134:
Her ase heap owre they porked an' riped.Gall. 1903 E.D.D.:
He porked the bear with a stick till it yowled.Dmf. 1912 J. L. Waugh R. Doo i.:
Blaa'in' great big bellows like mad, and porkin' bad weans into the flamin lowes, as he wad pork a horse shae, wi' his pinchers.Abd. 1949 Huntly Express (15 April):
The absence of snow and severe frost during the winter and spring kept the crows from “porkin' th' neeps.”
II. n. A thrust, prod, poke (sm.Sc., Rxb. 1966).Kcb. 1911 Crockett Rose of the Wilderness xxiii.:
Tamson will stand by and gie ye a “pork” doon wi' his loupin'-pole, to save ye needless sufferin', as it were!
