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Bowked vs Borked - What's the difference?

bowked | borked |

As verbs the difference between bowked and borked

is that bowked is (bowk) while borked is (bork).

bowked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bowk)

    • bowk

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Verb

  • (Geordie) To belch, to burp.
  • * 1966 , William Mayne, Earthfasts , Peter Smith (1989), ISBN 9780844664309, page 37:
    • "That made me bowk'," he said; and he ' bowked again. He took another swig with caution, and gave the bottle to David, and they swigged at it in turn.
  • * 1997 , Brian P. Martin, Tales of the Old Countrywomen , David & Charles (1997), ISBN 9780715303658, page 143:
    • If this man did not feed the mill carefully and regularly it bowked with "indigestion" and this slowed everything up.
  • * 2008 , Sid Waddell, Taak of the Toon: How to Speak Geordie , HarperCollins (2008), ISBN 9780007247820, page 92:
    • He claimed that meat or cheese made you 'bowk' (belch) and get stomach cramps — the last thing you need 'yakking' (using a pick) coal for eight tough hours in a two-foot 'cavil' (job area).
  • (UK) To vomit.
  • * 2004 , Chris Donald, Rude Kids: The Unfeasible Story of Viz , HarperCollins (2004), ISBN 9780007190966, page 275:
    • At that point another of my guests, a highly respected Newcastle art gallery owner by the name of Rashida, bowked up all over the floor behind me.
  • * 2009 , Blythe Gifford, In the Master's Bed , Harlequin (2009), ISBN 9780373295623, page 64:
    • 'Take yourself to bed then. And don't whine to me tomorrow about how you bowked your guts out all night.'
  • * 2010 , Mike Harper, Little Mickey H: A Norbury Lad , AuthorHouse (2010), ISBN 9781449015565, page 107:
    • Firstly, aged perhaps five or six after polishing off a banana and a slice of bread and butter in the back room at tea time, taking my plate out to the kitchen, I managed to make it only as far as the spin dryer in the hall before bowking richly over the lino.
  • * 2011 , Erica Bell, The Voyage of the Shuckenoor , Interactive Publications (2011), ISBN 9781921869549, unnumbered page:
    • Misima bowked beside him, bent over double. They made twin streams of yellow bile in the heather.

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    borked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bork)

    • bork

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the 1987 United States Supreme Court nomination of .{{cite web citation , 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

  • (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 citation
    • , 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}}
    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.
  • * 2004 , Mark Tushnet, A Court Divided , p340
    • 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.
  • * 2006 , Jeffrey Lord, Borking Rush'', in ''American Spectator , October 30, 2006
    • 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

  • To misconfigure, especially a computer or other complex device.
  • To break or damage.

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