Definitions

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  • noun slang, chiefly in plural A woman's breast.

Etymologies

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Originally Australian. Origin unknown.

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Examples

  • Doubtless many have written in to point this out, but "nork" is in Australia a slang term for the female breast (as in "nice norks").

    The Corner 2009

  • It's all very subtle and suggestive avoiding obvious plunging neckline ond overt nork exposure.

    The new Woody Allen movie: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." Ann Althouse 2008

  • But ever since Janet Jackson flopped out a nork during the Super Bowl, censorship is becoming more and more of an issue – whether it's Eddie Vedder's lameish George Bush insult being cut from Lollapolooza or Starbucks refusing to sell Bruce Springsteen CDs because they contain songs about Bruce Springsteen spooging up a whore's bum – and now The Emmys has been hit with a number of censorship controversies, too.

    The Emmys Happen. That’s About It 2007

  • She's recorded countless classic songs like, er… anyway, look, the thing that Janet Jackson is now most famous for is whipping a nork out at a sports match.

    Janet Jackson Thwaps Her Boobies Out Again 2006

  • Muster Richard's been back above a week, and he and the Old Un is up to their same tricks again; but that ain't awl -- there's a black-haired pale chap cum with a heye like a nork, as seems to me the baddest of the lot, and that ain't sayin 'a little.

    Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil Frank E. Smedley 1835

  • UDD must have learned better from PAD, if they decided to adopt PAD's style! but then - what can be expected from predominately "ban-nork" (rurals) peasants, which mostly comprise Reds crowd?

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • I've developed a little litany of Obama-isms ~ "unh, mmmm, nghnm, nork, dork" ~ that he goes into when asked to say something for which he does not have an already prepared text ready to go.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • "Thais be more modest ..." tell you what - cut the crap, would you? role model? surely Thaksin has done much more for baan-nork than all the Democrats all together in their history. and let me remind you that even your CORRUPT Thai judges could not find sufficient evidence of him being CORRUPT! read the verdict properly.

    Bangkok Pundit 2008

  • To Slegge's annoyance, he very soon found that if the prestige of the school was to be kept up Glyn and Singh must be in the eleven, for the former in a very short time was acknowledged to be the sharpest bowler in the school, while, from long practice together, Singh was an admirable wicket-keeper -- one who laughed at gloves and pads, was utterly without fear, and had, as Wrench said -- he being a great admirer of a game in which he never had a chance to play -- "a nye like a nork."

    Glyn Severn's Schooldays George Manville Fenn 1870

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  • JM has it on good authority that there are some geographic areas in regional England that puff out their chests, beat their breasts and rejoice in the name of 'Nork'

    February 1, 2009

  • JM is right. See also norks.

    February 1, 2009

  • Norks are the same as boobs, tits, kahunas and knockers.

    June 11, 2009

  • "Kate scandalette all nork and no action? Think again …" --from crickey.com (http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/09/17/rundle-kate-scandalette-all-nork-and-no-action-think-again/)

    I'd never heard of this before--just how offensive is it?

    September 17, 2012

  • Apart from in caricatures of English schoolboys and topless tabloid descriptions of the daily bimbo (i.e. Murdoch papers), I've never come across it.

    September 17, 2012

  • There's a Mexican bread company called Bimbo.

    I think it was mentioned over on the muffinhood page.

    September 17, 2012