different between borked vs broked

English

Etymology

bork +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??kt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??kt/

Adjective

borked (comparative more borked, superlative most borked)

1. (slang, humorous) Particularly of computers or other complex devices: broken, damaged, out of order.
   • 2011 September 25, Ben Conry, 31 Days Before Your CompTIA A+ Exams, Cisco Press, ?ISBN, page 175:

     As a PC technician, you're responsible for doing a certain amount of network troubleshooting, but if the router is really borked, it'll require more management than you'd be expected to handle (or be tested on in the A+ exam).

   • 2021 WIRED

     After finding a few initial customers at Burger Kings and Super Duper Burgers, they finally began to tap into their real target market, the franchisees who not only represented the biggest single collection of Taylor machine owners but the ones who used the most complex, most often borked digital version of Taylor’s product: McDonald’s.

Verb

borked

1. simple past tense and past participle of bork.

Alternative forms

• Borked

Anagrams

• broked

English

Verb

broked

1. simple past tense and past participle of broke

Anagrams

• Borked, borked