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[sexy_romulan]

F-list, I ask you to contribute evidence to a debate I was having with Corey this afternoon. It concerns the word "PORK", used as a verb.

How did "to pork" evolve as a synonym for "to fuck"? Corey seems to think that it's because the two words sound sort of similar. His argument is that p and f are linguistically not far apart, and the o and u sounds are also similar, and then they have the same final k sound. Personally I think that makes no sense at all, because "pork" and "fuck" SOUND NOTHING LIKE EACH OTHER. I can sort of see how it might have drifted from "fuck" --> "fork" --> "pork", but it seems to me that it probably has more to do with an association with sausages than anything linguistic.

What say you, O wise internets???

Comments

[owl-of-minerva.livejournal.com]

Maybe I am totally dumb and live under a rock, but I have not heard that expression.

It's vaguely unpleasant, since it makes me think of a stuck pig or something. Bleah.

[ami-b.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've actually heard it in conversation - thank god - but I've been vaguely aware of it ever since my first year of undergrad, when it was involved in some sort of weird inside joke among my roommates.

Definitely unpleasant, but somehow it still tickles my funny bone in a South Park kind of way.

[csi-tokyo3.livejournal.com]

Probably goes along with 'man meat', 'slipping her the salami', and 'the ruby-red eye of his love lance'. That last one I read at 6 pm tonight in a published romance anthology. GAH!

[amazon-syren.livejournal.com]

O.o

That actually got published???

Was it serious???

<*reconsiders idea that her nano novel will never see print*>

[csi-tokyo3.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was every bad as a bit of fanfic that, while well-written with no errors, still managed to make me boggle with phrases like "her love garden", the main bit where the kingdom's princess & her friend were ravished by the barbarian lord & his top general (one at a time), and the whole tiptoeing around of the orgiastic details. -.-

Porking

[missquirt.livejournal.com]

Urban Dictionary says: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?page=2&term=pork

Alas, Urban Dictionary doesn't really get into etymology.

It might be that it's a word that sounds a little bit crude, but is still PG. It might also have come from "boinking" via "oinking."

For "Porking," some of the lovely folks on urban dictionary suggest that the term relates primarily to sex with curvier women, hence the rather crude association with pigs, but I'm not sure I buy that explanation either.

I will continue to research this via the internet, though, it's peaked my interest.

[sinvokasha.livejournal.com]

Here's a thought:

Maybe someone needed to make up a slang phrase that referred specifically to being fucked by a sexist dickhead.

Seems to me that 'to pork' could cover that.

Yeah, and now having opened that can of worms...

**waits for the next comment below mine to refer to police officers** :P

[amazon-syren.livejournal.com]

Sausages.
Or the idea of "rutting like pigs in muck" or something similar.

But probably sausages.

[csi-tokyo3.livejournal.com]

It's part of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, where Jim Carrey insults a police officer by saying he'd "lose 40 pounds PORKING HIS WIFE!"