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Fink vs Firk - What's the difference?

fink | firk |

As nouns the difference between fink and firk

is that fink is someone who betrays a trust while firk is a stroke; lash.

As verbs the difference between fink and firk

is that fink is to betray a trust while firk is to carry away or about; carry; move.

fink

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, US, slang) Someone who betrays a trust.

    • Synonyms

    * (Someone who betrays a trust) betrayer, traitor

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (chiefly, US, slang) To betray a trust.

    • Derived terms

    * fink out

    References

    * * * " fink" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) ----

    firk

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) firken, .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry away or about; carry; move.
  • To drive away.
  • (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
    • I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. - Shakespeare : IV, iv
  • To rouse; raise up.
  • To move quickly; go off or fly out suddenly; turn out.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • A wench is a rare bait, with which a man / No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stroke; lash.

    • Etymology 2

    Frobably an alteration of freak.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A freak; trick; quirk.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)