Hork vs Bork - What's the difference?
hork | bork |
To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.
To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.
(label) To throw.
(label) To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.
To move; specifically in an egregious fashion
(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
, 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}}
* 2004 , Mark Tushnet, A Court Divided , p340
* 2006 , Jeffrey Lord, Borking Rush'', in ''American Spectator , October 30, 2006
To misconfigure, especially a computer or other complex device.
To break or damage.
As a verb hork
is to foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.As a noun bork is
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English
Verb
(en verb)- I downloaded the program, but something is horked and it won't load.
- Can I hork that code from you for my project?
- Let's go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre.
- I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!
- Go hork''' the kegs from out back, and then go to the party across the street and '''hork some girls back.
Usage notes
Senses “eat quickly” and “vomit” can be ambiguous, particularly when applied to food – this is a contranym.Synonyms
* (foul up) (l) * (throw) (l) * (cough up) (l), (l) * (gobble) (l), (l), (l) English contranymsbork
English
Etymology 1
From the 1987 United States Supreme Court nomination of .{{cite webcitation, 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
citation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.