Bonked vs Borked - What's the difference?
bonked | borked |
(bonk)
To strike or collide with something.
To have sexual intercourse.
(skateboarding) To hit something with the front wheels of the skateboard, whilst in the air, this pre-dates the snowboarding term,
(snowboarding) To hit something (especially a tree) with one's snowboard, especially while in the air.
To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
A bump on the head.
Any minor collision or random meeting.
An act of sexual intercourse.
A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.
(bork)
(US, politics, often, pejorative) To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.
* 2002 , Orrin G. Hatch, Capital Hill Hearing Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, February 7, 2002, {{cite web
, title=Statement of The Honorable Orrin Hatch
, accessdate=2008-11-14
, last=Hatch
, first=Orrin G.
, coauthors=
, date=2007-02-07
, work=The Nomination of Charles W. Pickering to be United States Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Circuit
, publisher=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary}}
* 2004 , Mark Tushnet, A Court Divided , p340
* 2006 , Jeffrey Lord, Borking Rush'', in ''American Spectator , October 30, 2006
To misconfigure, especially a computer or other complex device.
To break or damage.
English eponyms
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As verbs the difference between bonked and borked
is that bonked is (bonk) while borked is (bork).bonked
English
Verb
(head)bonk
English
Verb
(en verb) (slim-wikipedia)Synonyms
* (to have sexual intercourse) boink * (experience fatigue)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----borked
English
Verb
(head)bork
English
Etymology 1
From the 1987 United States Supreme Court nomination of .{{cite webcitation, title=American Topics , accessdate=2008-11-14 , last=Higbee , first=Arthur , coauthors= , date=1993-01-13 , work=International Herald Tribune , publisher=International Herald Tribune, archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20051026100058/http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/01/13/topi_3.php, archivedate=2005-10-26}}
Verb
citation
- After an eight-year hiatus, these groups are back on the scene, ready to implement an apparent vicious strategy of Borking any judicial nominee who happens to disagree with their view of how the world should be.
- Forcing their adversaries to bork nominees may, they may think, lead voters in the middle to think less well of liberals, enhancing the distaste for Washington politics that has helped conservatives gain political power.
- Above all it discusses the best tactics to defeat a borking'. Having been in the Reagan White House when Robert Bork was '''borked''', I knew something about the subject, which was a huge help when the same ' borking guns were turned on my friend Judge Smith years later.