Bork vs Pork - What's the difference?
bork | pork |
(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.
(uncountable) The meat of a pig; swineflesh.
(US, politics, slang, pejorative) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or his or her constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
As verbs the difference between bork and pork
is that bork is to defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy while pork is to have sex with (someone).As a noun pork is
the meat of a pig; swineflesh.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.
Etymology 2
* Possibly derived from (borken), which is an intentional misspelling of the word (broken) (e.g. The computer is borken ). The word is often used in ironic or humorous contexts. * Possibly derived from usage described under Etymology 1.Verb
pork
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Noun
(-)- Muslims are not allowed to eat pork .