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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Northern England, dialectal) A large marble, usually made of stone or metal, used in the game of marbles..
Wor Geordie's lost his penker
The 'panker' or 'panker' is a large marble, made of stone or iron. Each boy puts four marbles in a ring, and proceeds to knock them out of the ring with a panker.
Here he [Sid Chaplin] learnt to swim and how to jarp Easter eggs; he played with penkers, and shutty ring with glass alleys, and sometimes the men joined in games of tipcat.
"the first boy threw a penker - much larger than the other marbles (boodies) - the next boy tried to hit it"
Use penker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Penker means (Northern England, dialectal) A large marble, usually made of stone or metal, used in the game of marbles..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Wor Geordie's lost his penker
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