porky
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"I thought: 'Uh-oh. David’s told me a porky pie here,'" Underwood says.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2024
Michael described himself as a "very awkward, slightly porky, very strange-looking bloke" who walked into his first day of school with a mop of curly hair and wearing "sodding great big window-frame glasses."
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023
A supporting cast of honey and anise hyssop plants round out the porky saltiness with floral and syrupy sweetness.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
Yet the star of the dish turned out to be its condiment, a sticky, salty and porky soppressata jam.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
The man facing me was small, but porky.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood says his old club Tottenham were "telling porkies" last season when they say they did not contact other potential managers while Sherwood was still in charge at White Hart Lane.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2015
He continually tells porkies and blames everyone/everything else on his poor showing.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2015
Then again, he was guilty of telling a few porkies over the summer and it is not like Tottenham to remain quiet during a transfer window.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 31, 2012
Then again, given his propensity for telling porkies in interviews, perhaps the bank vault never existed and he was holed up in a penthouse at the Sanderson all along?
From The Guardian ● Dec. 4, 2010
The Bishop of Bath and Wells said, “Now me lad, what’s your story, eh? And don't tell any porkies, remember as how you’re talkin’ to a bishop.”
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
