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hork
English
Etymology
Onomatopoeia or imitative. For “cough up” sense, compare hawk/hock (16th century), which are almost homophonous in non-rhotic accents. For “throw” sense, compare huck. The “foul up” sense is presumably influenced by bork (late 1990s), from broken.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h??(?)k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
Verb
hork (third-person singular simple present horks, present participle horking, simple past and past participle horked)
- (computing, slang) 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.
- (slang, regional) To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.
- Can I hork that code from you for my project?
- (slang) To vomit, cough up.
- (slang) To throw.
- Let's go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre.
- (slang) To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.
- I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!
- (slang, transitive) To move.
- Go hork the kegs from out back.
Usage notes
Senses “eat quickly” and “vomit” can be ambiguous, particularly when applied to food – this is a contranym. These senses can be disambiguated by using "hork up" for "vomit" and "hork down" for "eat quickly."
Synonyms
- (foul up): bork
- (throw): hork
- (cough up): hawk, hock
- (gobble): gobble, scarf, scoff
Anagrams
- Kohr, Kroh, khor
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hok
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans hok, from Dutch hok.
Noun
hok (plural hoks)
- (South Africa) A kind of small hut.
Anagrams
- Kho
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch hok.
Noun
hok (plural hokke, diminutive hokkie)
- A living shelter for domesticated animals.
Descendants
- ? English: hok
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k/
- Hyphenation: hok
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
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Noun
hok n (plural hokken, diminutive hokje n)
- A living shelter for domesticated animals such as a kennel, cage, hut or a pen.
- A closet or small room.
- A den; a small and often dark dwelling such as a hut.
Derived terms
- berghok
- hokken
- hondenhok
- kippenhok
- kolenhok
- washok
- werkhok
Descendants
- Afrikaans: hok
- ? English: hok
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
hok
- first-person singular present indicative of hokken
- imperative of hokken
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