Horked vs Honked - What's the difference?
horked | honked |
(hork)
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
(honk)
(intransitive) To use a car horn.
To make a sound like a car horn.
To make the sound of a goose.
(informal) To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
As verbs the difference between horked and honked
is that horked is (hork) while honked is (honk).horked
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Verb
(head)hork
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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 contranymshonked
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Verb
(head)honk
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Verb
(en verb)- They stood and observed how long it took for the other cars to honk .
- "Honk! " she said, beaming reassuringly through the window and flapping her arms.