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Horned vs Horked - What's the difference?

horned | horked |

As verbs the difference between horned and horked

is that horned is past tense of horn while horked is past tense of hork.

As an adjective horned

is having horns.

horned

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(-)
  • Having horns.
    • A goat is an example of a horned animal.
  • * Coleridge
    • The horned moon with one bright star / Within the nether tip.
    Synonyms
    * cornigerous
    Derived terms
    * African horned cucumber * horned desert viper * horned dilemma * horned frog * horned gopher * horned grebe * horned lark * horned lizard * horned melon * horned owl * horned puffin * horned rattlesnake * horned screamer * horned snake * horned sphere * horned toad * Saharan horned viper

    See also

    * horny * cuckold

    Etymology 2

    See (horn) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (horn)

    • Anagrams

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    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