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Meaning of "porkies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PORKIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PORKIES

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Porkies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PORKIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

porkies

Porcupine Mountains

The Porcupine Mountains, or Porkies, are a group of small mountains spanning the northwestern Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Ontonagon and Gogebic counties, near the shore of Lake Superior. The area is part of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. The Porcupine Mountains were named by the native Ojibwa people, supposedly because their silhouette had the shape of a porcupine.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PORKIES

pork
pork barrel
pork butcher
pork chop
pork pie
pork pig
pork sausage
pork scratchings
porker
porkier
porkiest
porkiness
porkling
porkpie hat
porkwood
porky
porky pie
porn
pornaoke
pornification

WORDS THAT END LIKE PORKIES

autarkies
blue-skies
cookies
darkies
dickies
duckies
flunkies
Great Smokies
huskies
junkies
pinkies
Rockies
skies
stickies
takkies
thickies
to the skies
trackies
walkies
whiskies

Synonyms and antonyms of porkies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «porkies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PORKIES

Find out the translation of porkies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of porkies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «porkies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

porkies
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Porkies
570 millions of speakers

English

porkies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

porkies
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

porkies
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

porkies
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

porkies
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

porkies
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

porkies
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Porkies
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

porkies
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

porkies
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

porkies
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Porkies
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

porkies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

porkies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Porkies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Porkies
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

porkies
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

porkies
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

porkies
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

porkies
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

porkies
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

porkies
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

porkies
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

porkies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of porkies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PORKIES»

The term «porkies» is regularly used and occupies the 88.715 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PORKIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about porkies

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORKIES»

Discover the use of porkies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to porkies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Til Divorce Do Us Part: Why a Man Sings the Blues
The fresh air atop the Porkies invigorated both my body and soul. There is nothing around the Porkies for many miles except for thousands of acres of virgin hardwood forests, freshwater lakes and rivers. There are no big cities or factories  ...
Kevin A. Hill, 2009
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Assembly items
CHORUS: Porky tells porkies. GADEN: Yeah? ls he riding it around? PORKY: Yes. CHORUS: Porky tells porkies. GADEN: Have you seen him? PORKY: Sure have. Right in front of the school. CHORUS: Porky tells porkies. GADEN: l'd better  ...
Kevin Hallewell, 2002
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Escape from the Iris Village
Meeting. a. Cast. Call. for. Porkies. II. J. C. R. Forehand 2002 I came home from Saudi Arabia and decided not to return again So I was home in the USA looking for ajob then. I sent out my resumes across the country as well as locally And soon ...
J. C. R. Forehand, 2010
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Mormon Porkies and Other Lies - A Brit's 40 Year Experiment
This book includes part of the personal life of Tony Teague and his observations as a leader within The Mainstream Mormon Church in the UK. A former Police Officer and later therapist operating in the fields of Transactional Analysis and ...
Tony Teague, 2014
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Head and Heart Management: Managing Attitudes, Beliefs, ...
They dissimulate, attempt impression management or provide empirically non- veridical, socially desirable responses. In short, they tell porkies. Maybe. But what on earth leads one to believe the situation is any different – indeed possibly even  ...
Adrian Furnham, 2007
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The Smallest Carbon Footprint in the Land and Other Eco-Tales
For while he had been huffing and puffing, the first and second little porkies had slipped out the back door and had run next door to warn their brother. The wolf thumped on the door of the house of stone. 'Let me in, little porkie!' 'Why should I  ...
Anne Morgan, 2013
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Backpacker
The Porcupines are there. "Don't call them that. You're sure to get lost if you call them that. They're the Porkies, that's all." Jeff Rennicke, BACKPACKER Midwest editor had just been there. "Something strange came to me hiking the Porkies this  ...
8
Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All: Dispatches from the Gastronomic ...
And by the same hypocritical token, the conspicuous flagging on a package of the words 'contains no artificial colouring' is pretty much a guarantee that the primary flavours in a product are the work of men Telling porkies about bacon.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, 2011
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Woody's World: Turns Left... Into South East Asia
Who. is. telling. Porkies...??? Finally I reached the border ofThailand and Cambodia. No sooner had I departed the Orient Express, than I was jumped on by a Tuk-Tuk driver: “You wanna gwo twoo bowrda?” I was like “Yep,” Dave replied ...
John P. Wood, 2007
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Shattered Dreams
'Oh, I see, so you were telling me porkies, you knew George was working, you planned it. You had better pull over'. His heart was heavy, he thought, “I've blown it for sure, now she'll want me to turn the car around and take her back home.
Maureen Curtis, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORKIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term porkies is used in the context of the following news items.
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50 Cent is apparently NOT bankrupt. Erm, huh?
50 Cent has apparently told porkies about being bankrupt, and now a jury decided on Friday that he must pay an additional $2 million (£1.3 ... «heatworld, Jul 15»
2
Climbing to the highest peak in Tanzania, Africa, in more ways than …
... per cent of parents were prepared to tell porkies to their children's school to avoid hefty fines for booking cheaper holidays during term time. «Western Daily Press, Jul 15»
3
Parsons Nose, the Locarno, and other things you remember from …
Hami Howland: Mr G's, Pink Parrot, Porkies batch bar, 80s tacky music... can't beat it! Bring back the good ol' days. Sarah Illsley: Parsons Nose ... «Coventry Telegraph, Jul 15»
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#FlashbackFriday – Friendlies: Part Four
Wenger is telling porkies. He may well have a philosophy of nurturing home grown talent however the facts are the facts. In the last 15 years he ... «Online Gooner, Jul 15»
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The law in Malaysia is an ass — Manjit Bhatia
... shysters since 1969 — although one could also revisit some wild porkies told in the 1950s and 60s — Hishamuddin's attempt at grabbing the ... «Malay Mail Online, Jul 15»
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TONY BUTTERFIELD: Give the Knights some credit
A few porkies were tossed up to cover the misdemeanour, but they backfired in sentencing. Glebe would lose the two points and Laddo was ... «Newcastle Herald, Jul 15»
7
Dancing to Cuba's fiery beat
At first I suspected there were a lot of porkies being told when so many locals introduced themselves as salsa teachers. But it turned out to be ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
8
Do lie detectors work? We put the latest technology to the test
Unlike the polygraph in the movies, there are no yes or no answers and no flickering needle leaping into action as I spin my elaborate porkies. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
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TV Review: Ensemble tour de force and Porkies for posh people
Great cast, bitter satire, Kristen Bell. And yet it still comes across as a Porkies for posh people in expensive suits. It could do with a little subtlety. «RTE.ie, Jul 15»
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You'll never believe how this man got caught smoking after …
But wife Julie became suspicious he may be telling porkies pies about his new health kick after finding lots of biscuits in the cabbie's auto while ... «Rapid News Network, Jul 15»

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