Farked vs Yarked - What's the difference?
farked | yarked |
(fark)
(US) To subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding.
(yark)
To make ready; prepare.
*1881 , Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland :
(obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
(obsolete) To set open; open.
To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
To crack (a whip).
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.96:
*:he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter''], as cunningly as any Carter in ''France .
As verbs the difference between farked and yarked
is that farked is (fark) while yarked is (yark).farked
English
Verb
(head)fark
English
Etymology 1
From fuck.Usage notes
In Australia and New Zealand, fark'' is only very slightly less offensive than fuck itself. The only difference in pronunciation between ''fark'' and ''fuck'' is in vowel length; ''fuck is pronounced in New Zealand.Etymology 2
From the name of the popular website (Fark), because when it links to a small website from its main page, the small site is often subjected to so much new traffic that it is rendered inoperable due to server failure.Verb
(en verb)See also
* Slashdot effect ----yarked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*yark
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark , and leather to bark, [...]