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Sporked vs Spoked - What's the difference?

sporked | spoked |

As a verb sporked

is (spork).

As an adjective spoked is

having spokes.

sporked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (spork)

    • spork

    English

    (sporks) ("spork on Wikiquote")

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An eating utensil shaped like a spoon, the bowl of which is divided into tines like those of a fork, and so has the function of both implements; some sporks have a serrated edge so they can also function as a knife.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move or impale (food etc.) with a spork.
  • * 2002 , Olivia Goldsmith, Pen pals
    • She was sporking up her food with the kind of relish Jennifer had rarely seen at three star restaurants.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 29, author=Erin McKean, title=Corpus, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Now, obviously, most of this sporking' is facetious, done purely for humorous intent (none of the eyeballs being ' sporked were in news reports), but the phenomenon of the weaponized spork is one that passed lexicographers and language researchers by until we saw the corpus evidence. }}

    See also

    * foon * knork * runcible spoon * splade

    Anagrams

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    spoked

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • having spokes
  • *{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Olive M. Briggs, title=The Black Cross, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The river winds underneath it, and the great spoked wheel turns slowly, tossing the water into a cloud of yellow foam, flinging the spray afar into the dark, flowing stream, catching it again; playing with it, half sportive, half fierce, like some monster alive. }}
  • * 1986 , Mary Dove, The perfect age of man's life (page 84)
    • On the north wall of the former chapel of St Anthony in Leominster Priory church in Herefordshire, a ten-spoked wheel, with ten medallions on the circumference and one central medallion, is all that can now be seen
  • * {{quote-news, year=2001, date=June 1, author=R.M. Johnson, title=On Exhibit: The Mountain Bike's Primitive Ancestors, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=It features equal-sized spoked hickory wheels, pneumatic tires, a chain drive, and an elliptical chain ring, something Japanese manufacturers reintroduced on bicycles in the late 1970s. }}