Porked

Part of speech: verb, adjective

Definitions

1. to have experienced an unfortunate outcome due to an oversight
2. To have engaged in sexual relations ; to have suffered a bad result because of a mistake
3. Used to describe having slept with someone ; having encountered failure through carelessness

Etymology: "Porked" is the past tense of "pork," and its slang senses drift a long way from the meat. The noun "pork" entered English in the 14th century, borrowed through Anglo-Norman from Old French "porc," which came from Latin "porcus," meaning a domestic hog or pig. The Old English word for a piglet, "fearh," is a cognate, and "farrow," a litter of piglets, is a doublet of the same root, so the family of words once sorted animals by age and sex before the meat took over the name. The verb's modern slang meanings sit on a separate track. "Pork" was used as a term of abuse from the 17th century, and the sexual sense of having slept with someone, and the sense of having botched something through carelessness, are later developments built on that insulting use of the word. The verb "pork" simply took the regular past tense "porked," so the form is ordinary even though the senses are informal.