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Nork vs Hork - What's the difference?

nork | hork |

As a noun nork

is (slang|ethnic slur|derogatory) a north korean.

As a verb hork is

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

nork

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang, chiefly in plural) A woman's breast.
  • *1983 , Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers , Penguin 2009, p. 91:
  • *:I lay there so close I could've reached out in any direction and just grabbed a nork .
  • * 1999 , Louis Nowra, The twelfth of never :
  • Ernie constantly badgered me to get her to talk to him but I suspected she would throttle him if he merely glanced in the direction of her norks .
  • * 2002 , Kate Atkinson, Not the end of the world :
  • And her norks ! Like a hundred times bigger than his sister's. Why was he thinking about his sister's norks? Gross.

    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