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Has anyone else seen the term “Norks” before? The intended meaning is clear when it’s used midway in the article but I’ve never seen it ever before.
by carterschonwald 1y ago
Has anyone else seen the term “Norks” before? The intended meaning is clear when it’s used midway in the article but I’ve never seen it ever before.
- burnte 1y agoTook me a moment to figure it out too.
- floren 1y agoEl Reg uses it pretty consistently.
- bsimpson 1y agoThe Register has a reputation for being playful with language.
- decimalenough 1y agoIt's an old US military/intelligence term. And it's somewhat amusing in Australia, where "norks" is slang for "tits".
- gerdesj 1y agoNorks has at least two meanings in en_GB. North Koreans and (generally) female breasts. The first has a pretty obvious derivation and the second is anyone's guess. Surely no-one would conflate norks with norks. Please, no riffing on the sheer size of the Dear Leader's ... errm ... norks. Now, how about "nack", "nark", "nick", "nock", "neck", "nerk" and "nuck"? I know they are all valid en_GB words, except nuck but I'll bet it is in use somewhere. Slap a k on the front for more fulsome larkery. Hopefully that has cleared that up. (edit: add some more n..k words and a note about a leading k)
- Wingman4l7 1y agoFirst place I ever heard it was in the FPS game Homefront, where you're part of a "resistance movement fighting in the near-future against the military occupation of the Western United States by a reunified Korea".