A cut of meat from a pig, usually sliced from the loin or rib, that is cooked and eaten as a single serving.
From 'pork' (Old French 'porc' from Latin 'porcus' meaning pig) and 'chop' (from 'chap,' meaning to cut). The compound became standard English by the 1700s.
Pork has been a staple meat for millennia, but the term 'porkchop' specifically is relatively modern—earlier Europeans just called it a cut of pork meat without naming it as a single unified word.
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