snorker
/ˈsnɔːkə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From snork + -er.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈsnɔːkə/
Usage
- Colloquial
- Dated
- British usage
- Slang