Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also pork) a Jew [SE porker, a pig; the Jewish laws of kashrut, which forbid the consumption of pig flesh].

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1910		Sun. Times (Perth) 26 June 2nd sect. 12/8: What have we done that Newton Moore / Should send us out that plague of pork? / Why must our motherland endure / These Sheenies with the waddle walk?
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1983		Maledicta VII 25: Pork chop and porker have been used for Jews, of course precisely because the name callers were aware of the dietary prohibition.
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 229: pork eater and porker, a Jew.

2. (UK Und.) a saddle [the pigskin used for saddles].

1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 60: Porker, a saddle.

3. a fat person [SE porker, a pig, when raised for its meat].

1892		W. James letter 11 Apr. in Letters (1920) I 318: He is a real Balzackian figure — a regular porker, coarse, vulgar, vain, cunning, mendacious .
1900		Boy’s Own Paper 22 Dec. 183: But there was something yet in store for the unfortunate ‘Porker’ Griggs.
1911		Gem 30 Sept. 5: Yes, I see a prize porker!
1925		S. Lewis Arrowsmith 266: Her porker of a husband.
1949		R. Park Poor Man’s Orange 1: He’s getting as fat as a porker.
1959		I. & P. Opie Lore and Lang. of Schoolchildren (1977) 188: Podge, porker, Porky.
1961		‘Frank Richards’ Billy Bunter at Butlins 136: Wake up, you fat porker!
1976		P. Theroux Family Arsenal 115: It happened again, porker’s grunts preceding a wooden thud.
1986		R.G. Barrett Godson 169: ‘It’s Billy Bunter [...] Don’t you recognise the piffling, pernicious porker?’.
1987		T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 123: Kaminsky, a real porker whose white uniform barely contained the roll of fat that rode on his gunbelt.
1999		Guardian Guide 31 July–6 Aug. 52: Reg – the old porker – gets very upset.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 207: Forty Cubanos — porkers and stringbeans — jail recruits all.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 73: [P]orkers, uglies and zit-faced kids are verboten.

4. a police officer [var. on pig n. (2a)].

1843		R.S. Surtees Handley Cross (1854) 382: When Porker, the policeman (No. 9) was making his round [...] he stumbled over Pigg, lying in the gutter.
1985		J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 198: What the fuck these porkers doin?
2000		Indep. on Sun. Rev. 20 Feb. 34: The top-end crims and porkers who get away with it.