Barked vs Barfed - What's the difference?
barked | barfed |
(bark)
To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
* (rfdate), Tyndale.
* (rfdate), Fuller
To speak sharply.
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The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog.
A similar sound made by some other animals.
(figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
* circa 1921 , The Cambridge History of English and American Literature , vol 11:
(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
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(medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
* 2009 , Julie Reinhardt, She-Smoke: A Backyard Barbecue Book , page 151:
To strip the bark from; to peel.
To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
To girdle.
To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
(obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
(poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
* circa 1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116:
* circa 1880 , among the Poems of Emily Dickinson:
(nautical) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
As verbs the difference between barked and barfed
is that barked is (bark) while barfed is (barf).barked
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *bark
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) barken, berken, borken, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The neighbour's dog is always barking .
- The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.
- They bark , and say the Scripture maketh heretics.
- Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. .
- The sergeant barked an order.
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Usage notes
Historically, bork'' existed as a past tense form and ''borken as a past participle, but both forms are now obsolete.Derived terms
* bark up the wrong tree * barking * barking dogs never bite * bebark * dogs bark *Synonyms
* latrate (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) bark, from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia bark)- Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.
- This softens the meat further, but at some loss of crunch to the bark .
Usage notes
Usually uncountable; bark may be countable when referring to the barks of different types of tree.Synonyms
* (exterior covering of a tree) rindVerb
(en verb)- to bark one’s heel
- bark the roof of a hut
Etymology 3
From (etyl) , from Egyptian b?re .Alternative forms
* barqueNoun
(en noun)- It is the star to every wandering bark
- Whether my bark went down at sea, Whether she met with gales,