Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hork

/ˈhɔː(ɹ)k/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English

Syllables: hork
IPA: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)k/

11

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.

Slang

verb

To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.

Slang

verb

To vomit, cough up.

Slang

verb

Slang

verb

Slang

verb

To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.

Slang

verb

To move.

Slang; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"I downloaded the program, but something is horked and it won't load."
"Can I hork that code from you for my project?"
"Don't just hork it down!"
"Let's go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre."
"I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!"
"Go hork the kegs from out back."

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. The “steal” sense may be related to hook, which has the same slang meaning.

Usage

Inflected Forms

horks (present, singular) horking (participle, present) horked (participle, past) horked (past) hoark (alternative)

Synonyms

bork hawk hock gobble scarf scoff

Homonyms

hoark

Rhymes With

york fork pork cork torque dork quark orc stork bork wark spork

Questions

How do you pronounce hork?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhɔː(ɹ)k/.
What does hork mean?: To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.
Where does hork come from?: 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. The “steal” sense may be related to hook, which has the same slang meaning.

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