Meaning of snorker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pig, especially a piglet.
   colloquial, dated
2. A sausage.
   UK, slang

Examples

“The women do most of the business, the men condescending to attend to such matters as the sale of goats, or an occasional “snorker,” which is led by a string, and invariably lends its voice to the general uproar.”

“He told me he had got a queer critter that had come to his garden, and to his mind it was very like a little pig—in fact, “fust off he reckoned it was one o’ his young snorkers hed got out. He’s gone to his home now,” he added; […] He seemed to have no fear—he had evidently never been disturbed since he first made his home close to; and had he not been attracted by the grunts of the cottager’s young snorkers, his proximity would never have been suspected.”

“OH, ’twas Christmas Eve, and, by your leave, / I’ll tell you a wond’rous tale; / For the moreporks porked and the snorkers snorted, / And the tom-cats wailed a wail.”

“With the aid of a heavy chair he had the pig bailed up in a corner and hog-tied in no time at all. Put into a sack, the young snorker was carried back to captivity.”

“[…] a snorker left on the plate. Sam groans, but obediently sinks his fork into a third sausage […]”

“Tim is told off for trying to smuggle Dad a 'snorker' (sausage) from the catering trolley.”

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