Yark vs Fark - What's the difference?
yark | fark |
To make ready; prepare.
*1881 , Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland :
(obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
(obsolete) To set open; open.
To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
To crack (a whip).
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.96:
*:he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter''], as cunningly as any Carter in ''France .
(US) To subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding.
As verbs the difference between yark and fark
is that yark is to make ready; prepare or yark can be to draw (stitches etc) tight while fark is (us) to subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding.As an interjection fark is
(australia|nz|vulgar) , used to express surprise, etc .yark
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark , and leather to bark, [...]
