▪ I. snork, n.
(snɔːk)
[f. the vb.]
1. A snort or grunt; a noisy sniff or inhalation. dial.
| 1814 in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 1115 The pig..gave a snork. 1824 Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 430 Snork, the snort of an affrighted horse. 1876–99 in Mid-Yks. and Cumbld. glossaries. |
2. A young pig; a pigling.
| 1891 ‘Son of Marshes’ in Blackw. Mag. Nov. 651 The farm lad who leads a family of snorks from one part of a wood..to another. 1895 ― in Month Oct. 248 The little nose-twisting,..curly-tailed, winking, and blinking snorks. |
3. Austral. and N.Z. slang. A baby.
| 1941 Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 68 Snork, a baby. 1941 ― N.Z. Slang vi. 57 Other twentieth century New Zealand expressions of varied use include..snork, a baby. 1944 L. Glassop We were Rats 273 Got a scar on his hand, but probably he's had it since he was a little snork. 1956 D. M. Davin Sullen Bell ii. v. 136 What I wasn't expecting was to find her living with the same bloke again and well on the way to having another snork. 1963 B. Pearson Coal Flat x. 194 It's better to knock it on the head at birth, isn't it? Like a snork you don't want. 1970 D. M. Davin Not Here, Not Now ii. vii. 108 Have to give up being on the bum once there's a snork or two to be looked after. |
▪ II. snork, v. Now dial.
(snɔːk)
[prob. ad. MDu. or MLG. snorken (still Du. and LG.; hence Da. snorke), variant of snarken snark v.]
1. intr. To snore.
| 1531 Tindale Exp. 1 John (1537) 98 We..lye snorkyng lyke sloggardes. 1565 T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 121 b, Thou shalt not heare there the seruauntes snorke. |
2. To snort or grunt; to breathe noisily. Said esp. of horses and pigs. Hence ˈsnorking vbl. n.
Other dial. senses are recorded in the Eng. Dial. Dict.
| 1807 Hogg Pedlar xxiv. Poems (1865) 66 The horses they snorkit for miles around. 1814 in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 1113 The pig ran snorking and grunting after her. 1868– in Sc. and north. glossaries and texts (Eng. Dial. Dict.). 1896 Crockett Grey Man xii, The old grouting wretch kept up such a snorking. |
Hence ˈsnorker, = snork n. 2.
| 1891 ‘Son of Marshes’ On Surrey Hills iii. 96 He reckoned it was one o' his young snorkers hed got out. |