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- noun Plural form of
porky .
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Examples
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FOI requests across these two islands have uncovered non-DARD 'porkies' - more later.
Slugger O'Toole 2009
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Asked if she had told "porkies" in a tweet last month which denied she was pregnant, Allen said: "I wasn't too sure ... but now I know and I cant wait."
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Asked if she had told "porkies" in a tweet last month which denied she was pregnant, Allen said: "I wasn't too sure ... but now I know and I cant wait."
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Asked if she had told '' porkies '' in a tweet last month which denied she was pregnant,
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Asked if she had told '' porkies '' in a tweet last month which denied she was pregnant,
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Some very naughty people are telling "porkies" … and some very stupid people are believing them.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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Lets hope Fern will put Teflon 'on the spot', or that he has stroked his ego so much he inadvertantly opens his gob and tells a few more 'porkies' ...
Army Rumour Service 2009
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According to some very angry Labour types who got in touch today, David Cameron and George Osborne have been caught out telling back-to-back "porkies" this weekend. meeting with Nelson Mandela last week was not organised - as Mr Cameron's office claimed - at the great statesman's suggestion.
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Does anyone know if this is true, or am I being told 'porkies'?
Digital Point Forums 2009
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Finally, we narrowly miss being ‘named and shamed’ for telling porkies about the level of violent crime.
January « 2009 « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
lampbane commented on the word porkies
Lies.
October 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word porkies
Rhyming slang, ie. pork pies, lies.
October 5, 2008
Piknik commented on the word porkies
Slang: porkies Noun. Lies, from the rhyming slang pork-pies.
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/p.htm
April 23, 2012