snorker

plural snorkers

1. colloquialdatedA pig, especially a piglet.First known use 1890

   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.

   [1961], Andrew Dow Griffen, Laughter Lingers On…: Seven Merry Tales of Early Auckland, Mount Roskill, Auckland, →OCLC, page 18

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   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.

   1890, J[ohn] Rose Troup, “At Manyanga”, in With Stanley’s Rear Column, London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, →OCLC, page 80

   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.

   1891 February, a Son of the Marshes [pseudonym; Denham Jordan], “On Surrey Hills.—II. Fin and Fur.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXLIX, number DCCCCIV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 275, column 2

   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.

   1904 December 3, “What Might Have Been: On the Wallabi with a Spectre”, in W[illiam] J[ohn] Geddis, editor, The New Zealand Observer […], volume XXV, number 12, Auckland, →OCLC, “The Observer Christmas Annual” supplement, page 6, column 1

2. UKslangA sausage.First known use 1935

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

   2022, Emily Bevan, The Diary of Losing Dad, page 15

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

   2012, Chris Terrill, Shipmates, page 56