Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. US, politics, often pejorative To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.
- v. To misconfigure, especially a computer or other complex device.
- v. To break or damage.
Etymologies
- From the 1987 United States Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Twenty-two years later, Bork is remembered more as a verb -- to "bork" -- which conservative columnist William Safire defined as to engage in a vicious attack on "a candidate or appointee, especially by misrepresentation in the media.”
Karl Frisch: Forget Being "Borked," She's Been "Sotomayored"
“February 18th, 2010 at 2: 00 pm hey! bork is an A’”
“Far from the fictional underpinnings of the verb "bork," Judge Sotomayor has been the victim of journalistic malpractice.”
Karl Frisch: Forget Being "Borked," She's Been "Sotomayored"
“Souter's views on contentious issues were unknown, and the Bush administration wanted a nominee with no "paper trail" that could be used by Senate Democrats to "bork" him.”
“Bork! also works with Thunderbird and will automatically "bork" messages marked as junk.”
“Also if you select text from a web page, message, or composition window, you can right-click and "bork" a copy of the text to the clipboard and paste it back into a text editor, form, or message.”
“It can also "bork" based on sender address, again using a list of patterns you create.”
“In some circumstances it's useful, such as when I need to email a client (or friend for that matter) a ridiculously long URL that I * know* their mail client it going to bork, meaning they have to copy pasta into notepad or just think I sent them a broken link ...”
“I'm just glad to have found out what the word "bork" means.”
“I have no idea if my update will make battery better or worse, I just wanted to say nice use of the word "bork" in a sentence.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bork’.
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Sound Effects You Didn't Know You Needed
Lesser-known onomatopoeias (or things that sound like they ought to be onomatopoeias but aren't), ripe for use in parodies of the Adam West Batman series.
gloomth, spilth, glunch, flub, spramp, sough, gorp, guff, tump, kerrang, bork, flan and 12 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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addzo's list
Words that I am not worthy of.
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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Immortal_Yawn's list
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Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
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Politrix
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
vexillology, blowback, impunity, extraterritoriality, plenipotentiary, filibuster, pundit, jingoistic, gerrymander, swiftboat, espionage, ipsedixitism and 151 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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The Swedish Chef
bork, fork, pork, yom yom yom, flappen-jacken, boom-boom, boome-a-shooten, moofin, beency-bouncy bur..., cakensmooscher, hokey dokey, flip flip flip flip and 5 more...
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brundlefly's Words
shrike, afghan, spelunking, scuttle, boatswain, eschatological, merkin, sassafras, etruscan, doppelganger, trench, cromulent and 43 more...
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nice words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bork.
jmjarmstrong JM now knows that an object that functions correctly without meaningful results is a bork! How many borks do you know? Feb 1, 2009
sarra [remembers about verlan, goes off to add]
edit: [comes back embarrassed to find she already has] May 13, 2008
bilby Reminds me of some Jakarta slang in Indonesia where there was (somewhat) random reordering of letters within conventional words, but typically not the first the letter. The word was then thought to be generally recognisable based upon the utility of the first letter and the 'crossworld puzzle' ability of others to reorder the remaining letters. Often accompanied by reversal of last syllable.
eg. bokap - father
derived from 'bapak', father
Probably originated as a way for drug addicts to avoid detection. May 13, 2008
sarra I like the variation b0rken. May 13, 2008
bilby Noobly noot, noobly noot! May 13, 2008
chained_bear It reminds me of the Swedish chef on the Muppets.
Bork bork bork! May 13, 2008
bilby Really? Very interesting usage. Reminds me of something, can't quite put my finger on it *thinking* May 13, 2008
seanahan Also used as an alternation for broken, as in, "This code is borked". May 13, 2008
whichbe (An eponym from Judge Robert Bork) U.S. political slang to defame or vilify (a person) systematically, especially in the mass media, with the aim of preventing his or her appointment to public office; to obstruct or thwart (a person) in this way. May 12, 2008