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   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   Le 09/08/2024 à 15:54, Graeme Wall a écrit :   
   > On 09/08/2024 09:02, Hibou wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Bangers, or more arcanely 'snorkers'.   
   >>   
   >> "Snorkers is a British English colloquialism for sausages. It may have   
   >> a Royal Navy slang origin. The term is probably derived from an   
   >> earlier dialect term for a young pig: Wright's 19th-century English   
   >> Dialect Dictionary notes snorker as a widespread word for a piglet,   
   >> related to the word snork, to grunt or snore" -   
   >>    
   >   
   > See "The Cruel Sea"   
      
   Yes, that's where I first encountered the term.   
      
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