Ferk vs Yerk - What's the difference?
ferk | yerk |
(archaic) to stab.
*circa 1603, :
To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, Scotland) To strike or lash with a whip.
As verbs the difference between ferk and yerk
is that ferk is alternative form of lang=en while yerk is to stab.As a noun yerk is
a sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.yerk
English
Verb
(en verb)- I lack iniquity / Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times / I had thought to have yerk’d him here, under the ribs.
- They flirt, they yerk , they backward fling.
- Their wounded steeds / Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters.