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Horked vs Honked - What's the difference?

horked | honked |

As verbs the difference between horked and honked

is that horked is (hork) while honked is (honk).

horked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hork)

  • hork

    English

    Verb

    (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.

    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 contranyms

    honked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (honk)

  • honk

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To use a car horn.
  • They stood and observed how long it took for the other cars to honk .
  • To make a sound like a car horn.
  • To make the sound of a goose.
  • "Honk! " she said, beaming reassuringly through the window and flapping her arms.
  • (informal) To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound produced by a typical car horn.
  • The cry of a goose.