different between york vs nork

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??(?)k/

Etymology 1

Back-formation from yorker.

Verb

york (third-person singular simple present yorks, present participle yorking, simple past and past participle yorked)

1. (cricket) to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.

Etymology 2

Perhaps imitative.

Verb

york (third-person singular simple present yorks, present participle yorking, simple past and past participle yorked)

1. (slang) To vomit.
   • 2013, Breaking Bad (TV series), "Blood Money" (episode)

     BADGER: They're eating blueberry pies... […] Okay, finally, Kirk, he can't take it anymore. He yorks! Now it's just down to Chekov and Spock.

Anagrams

• Kory, roky

English

Etymology

Unknown, originally used in Australia, attested since the 1960s. One theory suggests that the source is Norco Co-operative, a butter manufacturer that featured a cow's udder on package labels, but this is considered dubious.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??k/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /no?k/

Noun

nork (plural norks)

1. (slang, chiefly in plural) A woman's breast.
   • 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin 2009, p. 91:

     I lay there so close I could've reached out in any direction and just grabbed a nork.

   • 1999, Louis Nowra, The twelfth of never:

     Ernie constantly badgered me to get her to talk to him but I suspected she would throttle him if he merely glanced in the direction of her norks.

   • 2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the end of the world:

     And her norks! Like a hundred times bigger than his sister's. Why was he thinking about his sister's norks? Gross.

References

Anagrams

• Kron, N. Kor., NKRO, Ronk, knor

Basque

Etymology

nor (“who”) +? -(e)k (ergative suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nork/

Pronoun

nork

1. ergative indefinite of nor; who

Usage notes

Both nor and nork are both translated as "who", but nork refers to the subject of a transitive verb:

To ask about the object of a transitive verb or the subject of an intransitive verb, nor is used: