Forky vs Gorky - What's the difference?
forky | gorky |
forked
* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Abigail Stanley Hanna, title=Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The forky lightning flashed, and the deep toned thunder reverberated peal on peal, while the shrieking winds rocked the tree tops, and poured their wild melody upon the ear. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1896, author=Captain Frederick Marryat, title=The Phantom Ship, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The column of fire now ascended above the main-top--licking with its forky tongue the top-mast rigging--and embracing the mainmast in its folds: and the loud roar with which it ascended proved the violence and rapidity of the combustion below, and how little time there was to be lost. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Various, title=The Red Romance Book, chapter=, edition=
, passage=At the sight of the young man it lashed its tail so violently that the earth trembled as if with an earthquake, while its forky tongue darted in and out with a deafening hissing noise. }}
As adjectives the difference between forky and gorky
is that forky is forked while gorky is (informal) awkward or strange.forky
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