Horked vs Corked - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between horked and corked

is that horked is (hork) while corked is (cork).

of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.

(head)

(hork)

(en verb)

To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.

I downloaded the program, but something is horked and it won't load.

To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.

Can I hork that code from you for my project?

(label) To throw.

Let's go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre.

(label) To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.

I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!

To move; specifically in an egregious fashion

Go hork''' the kegs from out back, and then go to the party across the street and '''hork some girls back.

Senses “eat quickly” and “vomit” can be ambiguous, particularly when applied to food – this is a contranym.

* (foul up) (l) * (throw) (l) * (cough up) (l), (l) * (gobble) (l), (l), (l) English contranyms

(head)

(cork)

(en adjective)

Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 554:

Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked .

Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.

Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?

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