Spork vs Cog - What's the difference?
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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.
To move or impale (food etc.) with a spork.
* 2002 , Olivia Goldsmith, Pen pals
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 29, author=Erin McKean, title=Corpus, work=New York Times
, 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. }}
(label) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
*, Bk.V, Ch.iv:
*:As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng.
A tooth on a gear
A gear; a cogwheel
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
* 1976, Norman Denny (English translation),
* 1988,
(carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
to load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat
to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently
* Jonathan Swift
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
* Shakespeare
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
* J. Dennis
As a noun spork
is 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.As a verb spork
is to move or impale (food etc) with a spork.As a symbol cog is
the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for the republic of the congo.spork
English
(sporks) ("spork on Wikiquote")Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- She was sporking up her food with the kind of relish Jennifer had rarely seen at three star restaurants.
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See also
* foon * knork * runcible spoon * spladeAnagrams
*cog
English
(wikipedia cog)Etymology 1
From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from (etyl) . See below.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) (compare (etyl) . The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.Noun
(en noun)- ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
- Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do , then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog .
Derived terms
* cog jointVerb
(cogg)Etymology 3
Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.Verb
(cogg)- For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog .
- I'll cog their hearts from them.
- to cog in a word
- Fustian tragedies have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.