porky
porky — 形容詞
- porkypositive
- porkiercomparative
- porkiestsuperlative
1. too fat in a round way, often said jokingly or unkindly about a person or animal
胖胖的
身形偏圓胖，常帶玩笑或嫌棄語氣
too fat in a round way, often said jokingly or unkindly about a person or animal.
Jisoo worried that the school uniform made her look porky around the waist.
Jisoo 擔心那套制服讓她腰部看起來胖胖的。
look porky around + body part
The little bulldog grew porky after Ramón kept feeding it table scraps.
Ramón 一直餵牠吃桌上的剩菜後，那隻小鬥牛犬變得胖胖的。
grow porky after too much food
By winter, Megan felt porky because she had stopped cycling to work.
到了冬天，Megan 覺得自己變得胖胖的，因為她不再騎車上班。
The actor wore a loose jacket so the camera would not make him seem porky.
那位演員穿了寬鬆外套，免得鏡頭把他拍得胖胖的。
- chubby
softer and often kinder, especially for children or pets
- plump
suggests a rounded shape and can sound more positive
- overweight
neutral and factual, especially in health contexts
文法句型
look porky
get/grow porky
a porky + animal/person
用法筆記
Usually said in an informal, teasing way, and it can sound rude if you say it directly about an adult. It is much less neutral than fat or overweight.
常見錯誤
porky — 名詞
- porkysingular
- porkiesplural
1. a lie, especially one said casually to hide the truth or fool someone.
瞎話；謊話
隨口編出來騙人的話
a lie, especially one said casually to hide the truth or fool someone.
Don't give me that porky about traffic when you left home late.
別拿塞車那套瞎話來唬我，你明明很晚才出門。
that porky about + excuse
Zayd told a porky about losing the receipt and kept the refund money.
Zayd 編了個弄丟收據的瞎話，把退款留下來。
tell a porky about + event
Everyone laughed when Adina admitted her story about the prince was a porky.
Adina 承認那個王子的故事是瞎話後，大家都笑了。
The coach called it a porky when Christopher blamed the dog for the broken window.
Christopher 怪狗打破窗戶時，教練說那是瞎話。
文法句型
tell a porky
that's a porky
a porky about + event
用法筆記
Very informal and chiefly British. It often appears in phrases like tell a porky or that's a porky, so it sounds playful, mocking, or accusing rather than neutral.