Usually means: Lies, often playful or harmless.
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  1. porkies: Merriam-Webster
  2. porkies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. porkies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. porkies: Wordnik
  5. porkies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. porkies: Wiktionary
  7. porkies: Dictionary.com
  8. Porkies: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. porkies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. porkies: Magic or Madness

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. porkies: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See porky as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (porky)

adjective:  Resembling or characteristic of pork.
adjective:  (slang) Rather fat; chubby.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang, in the plural) An eye.
noun:  (informal, childish) A porcupine.
▸ Also see porky


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