Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a lie.

1943		R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 94: ‘Ask no questions,’ says Henry, ‘Hear no lies. Ever see a nanny goat poop pork pies?’.
1969		S.T. Kendall Up the Frog 39: Pork pie – Lie.
1986		Times 11 Oct. 3: In a statement the man allegedly said: ‘I have been telling porky-pies’.
1989		T. Blacker Fixx 195: Who [...] can claim that they have not told the occasional porky.
1991		Age (Melbourne) 11 June 13/2: Pork pies, rhyming slang for lies.
1996		P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] That’s a porky, Jack. If you were going to tell porkies, you should have changed the tyres on that motor.
1996		P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] [O]ne of his personal favourites from the Johnny the Spoofer’s Pocket Book of Telling Pork Pies to Win Friends.
1998		G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 305: Like his father he has been known to tell what those close to him call ‘porkies’.
1999		N. Cohn Yes We have No 201: A bunch of licensed wankers swapping porky-pies over lunch.
2001		Guardian G2 7 June 15: We constantly shimmy around the issues and tell porky pies.
2002		R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 59: Since you caught me out telling porkies, how about letting me buy you a drink.
2003		N. Griffiths Stump 48: If we find out he’s telling us porkies like, we get the fuckin truth out of him.
2009		P. Temple Truth 23: An elaborated lie. Too much detail. These porkies usually fell over when you stared at the teller for ten seconds.
2013		IOL Cape News 7 Oct. 🌐 UK chain telling porkies? London supermarket [...] accused of lying to shoppers.
2015		I. Welsh Decent Ride 259: Eh’s bit fuckin simple, but ah kin tell eh’s no spinnin porkies.
2018		CGM ‘No Porkies’ 🎵 We do things that them boy won’t do (gang) / And man talk facts on tracks, no porky pies.
2019		P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 50: ‘Did bloody not [...] hat’s a big porky’.
2021		A. Parks April Dead 195: ‘[Y]ou’re quite fond of telling porkies’.
2023		A. Parks To Die in June 206: ‘Gerry has been telling porky pies’.

2. an eye.

1995		J. Cameron Vinnie Got Blown Away 121: Then I couldn’t believe my porkies, who walked in?
1999		J. Cameron Brown Bread in Wengen [ebook] I never even clapped my little porkies on him before.