Hork vs Hoik - What's the difference?
hork | hoik |
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
To play such a shot.
To lift something up wildly.
To throw something out.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VIII
, passage=“What are your plans now?” “I propose to hoik you out of that chair and seat myself in it and take that book, the early chapters of which I found most gripping, and start catching up with my reading and try to forget.”}}
(NZ) to spit.
As verbs the difference between hork and hoik
is that hork is to foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken while hoik is to play such a shot.As a noun hoik is
(cricket) a wild hook shot played without style.hork
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.