dial. [f. the vb.]
1. A snort or grunt; a noisy sniff or inhalation.
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., 651/2. Even the farm lad who leads a family of snorks from one part of a wood or field to another finds them too much for him at times. Ibid. (1895), in Month, Oct., 248. The little nose-twisting, inquisitive, curly-tailed, winking, and blinking snorks.
