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nork en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /noːk/ (Australia)
  • /nɔːk/ (UK)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /nɔɹk/ (General-American)

Etymology

Unknown, originally used in Australia, attested since the 1960s. One theory suggests that the source is Norco Co-operative, a butter manufacturer that featured a cow's udder on package labels, but this is considered dubious.

Meanings

  1. (in-plural, slang) A woman's breast.
    • I lay there so close I could've reached out in any direction and just grabbed a nork. 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 91:
    • And her norks! Like a hundred times bigger than his sister's. Why was he thinking about his sister's norks? Gross. 2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the end of the world:
    • Ernie constantly badgered me to get her to talk to him but I suspected she would throttle him if he merely glanced in the direction of her norks. 1999, Louis Nowra, The twelfth of never:

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wikipedia: Norco Co-operative