Examples
“So 5: 30 in the morning and you are laying there listening to the animals and then hear this loud 'hork' - don't even know what you call it - well, anyway, there is no hope in hell that you are going to fall asleep after 5: 30am!”
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“Of course, "my carpet does not show cat hork" is not necessarily a strong advertizing point. (”
“We got to the big cats by early afternoon, and the Siberian tiger was making "sick cat" moans (or perhaps roars, but they really sounded a lot like what my cats do right before they hork up a hairball.)”
“The stark, gripping "Shadows of a Hot Summer" ("St í ny hork é ho l é ta," 1977), which has been compared to Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" (1971), follows a gentle Moravian farmer whose family is threatened when his farm is occupied by Ukrainian nationalists in the aftermath of World War II.”
“The stunned lemur is waiting on “mama” to hork up that damn tooth/hairball, after time traveling back to 1972 for that sofa.”
“My dog would probably grab it, fling it around a few times and eat it, then hork it up casually, of course.”
“Yep… nothing expresses the feelings of my heart more than a fat, contact wearing cougar about to hork up a fur ball in space.”
“I just had to buy a new twin mattress for a certain someone whom I live with who cannot seem to wake up enough to hork.”
“Of course, if you've managed to hork up the system with malware, you wouldn't want to save your settings when you shutdown -- to be fair, you probably wouldn't even want to do a normal shutdown, just a power off/on cycle, which then restores your OS to a nice, fresh, non-horked-up state in a matter of about a minute.”
“The Republicans, along with the Senate majority leader, are suggesting that rather than being incarcerated in state of the art maximum security facilities -- facilities financed via the multi-billion dollar U.S. prison-industrial-complex mandated by lawmakers -- terrorists will simply be turned loose on American soil for some crazy reason, and will subsequently hork a nuclear missile and proceed to crash it into your house.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hork’.
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sniglets
sniglets and neologisms | protologisms
random neologisms, compound words plus more
( randomness )bimp, darf, sketchy, blurfle, doork, elbonics, facon, fuffle, gibble, gyroped, hangle, passhole and 214 more...
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waldo's list
under the sink, in the hall closet, hoboken, at sea, in prison, nyinyikay, smokin' a reefer, in the bog, gone to phillydel..., bagot, wuppertal, out of range and 123 more...
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You'll Never Hork Alone
Hork on the Wild ..., Hork like an Egyp..., hork in the road, hork and beans, Hork and Mindy, horkpie hat, horkupine, hork barrel, Luke Skyhorker, ad hork, social horker, These Boots are M... and 93 more...
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Inside Out Jokes
So you just came to wordie and are thoroughly confused? Me too. Here's a place to list all of those repeating references along with a link to the original joke. Because wordie's too cool to keep...
knot, specific excrement, klein bottle, madeupical, hilarious misunde..., histrionic, todally, alsome, nought, schadenfreudgeon, mi-vox, chad and 2 more...
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Yo-yo words
Verbs you can both "up" and "down".
Note: I prefer examples where the two senses aren't perfect opposites, e.g. warm up / warm down.dress, hork, trade, wash, scrub, brush, knock, touch, put, shoot, run, throw and 36 more...
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lesser-known proofreading marks
more cowbell, smiley face, insert interrobang, tldr, cold pricklies, warm fuzzies, semicolon smackdown, what were you smo..., because I said so..., hork, carl, insert story here
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Vomit
euphemisms for vomiting
hurl, barf, puke, shooting salad, technicolor yawn, praying to the po..., shouting groceries, tossing your cookies, blowing chunks, calling Ralph on ..., speaking in tongu..., howling at the po... and 31 more...
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Miscellaneous
‽, ☤, mandelbrot, angora rabbit, psychrolutes marc..., vampyroteuthis in..., basking shark, mano de desierto, underwater sculpt..., surgical dining, gyroscope, Derinkuyu and 161 more...
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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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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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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Cat Kisses Favorites
leprechaunic hair, a dinky grin, strangled giggle, a waft of words, comatose fun, a grisly shooting..., jim bag clothes, to quench and fuss, shutter hole, tearful sludge, dead-eye blue, coughing curtains... and 97 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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onomatopeia
(the not-so-obvious ones)
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Creative Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they mean, but they're not *technically* onomatopoetic.
(another edit: this list is morphing into something I can't quite describe. But I still like it.)ugly, icon, hang, weenie, bell, zit, ennui, sour, speed, rankle, muddle, disgruntle and 129 more...
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silly, silly words
besnotted, skedaddle, humdinger, pamplemousse, pantalones, underpants gnomes, underoos, herpes zoster, possums, meat slurry, sausage, peevish and 256 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hork.
blafferty I found you, and your lists, dontcry. But I didn't realize profiles were gone except for our wordie tracks - that was a shocking development. Mar 12, 2012
dontcry As we all know -- I'm not a computer...um... person. I wanted to add a new word to one of my lists and I can't even get to my own page! I don't see a way to my own page -- with my own lists. Am I gone? That would be a shame as I made up an awesome word today and I wanted to share it with my wordies... *wah*
*swings frantically on porch*
*is in danger of falling on delicate hydrangeas*
*SOMEbody will have to pay for that*
*it's porch law*
*my hands are tied* Mar 11, 2012
dontcry yarb - Agreed. As something of an expert on all things hork... *ahem* computer breakage is bork.
*returns to porch swing to enjoy unusually balmy weather* Feb 1, 2012
yarb Interesting, brian. What you say about hork, I would say defines bork. Feb 1, 2012
brian_armstrong To Hork something, like a system or a machine, is to cause it to become non-functioning, when it was once working fine. But it has a slightly finer meaning than that. "He horked the computer" means that not only is the machine not working, but it is in this state precisely because the idiot thought he knew what he was doing when he messed with it. Hence the association with horking up a hairball. A horked system invokes the same replusion as a hairball, and also means that someone else now has to clean up the mess. (See PhD.) Jan 31, 2012
blafferty This came up in the examples section today:
Of course, "my carpet does not show cat hork" is not necessarily a strong advertizing point. (
— mrissa: 'What makes a man turn neutral?'
May 15, 2011
ruzuzu See comment on hwæt. Nov 2, 2010
jwjarvis "somebody horked our clothes!" Strange Brew Sep 30, 2010
brendatata My daughter used it in an e-mail to me. She has a BA in English so I was a little surprised to find her using it. From the context of the e-mail she used hork in place of steal. "You know that book I horked." Sep 24, 2009
four_degrees it means to barf, throw up, vomit. Often used to lighten the subject of vomiting.
"my cat horked up a hairball the size of a rat"
"hork" helps make that sentance funny! Jun 9, 2009
frogapplause A hork sighting!
There must be more, c_b.
We must find them.
All of them. Oct 22, 2008
chained_bear I saw hork in print (well, online...) in this phrase:
...a fake conservative who raised taxes and horked up earmark millions every chance she got...
Which, if you read it with the most commonly-used Wordie definition (hork up rather than hork down), sounds pretty weird. Until you realize you can also hork down. Which I almost forgot.
(Seen in this Rolling Stone article.) Oct 22, 2008
yarb *horks at dontcry* Jul 24, 2008
dontcry Also, like "aloha" and "ciao," hork means hello and goodbye! It's such a perfect word! Jul 24, 2008
chained_bear Yes, it's onomatopoetic. "Hawk" is not. Jul 24, 2008
therainsaidstop it sounds like "horking a loogie"
Jul 24, 2008
johnmperry How is this other than hawk misspelt? Jul 24, 2008
she Or trichobezoar. 'Horking the trichobezoars again!' Jul 11, 2008
dontcry I'm totally going to hork down my pizza tonight. I just hope I don't hork it back up again... May 23, 2008
pterodactyl I've also heard this used to describe the same action in the opposite direction, as in "my cat just horked up another hairball". May 20, 2008
whichbe (slang) To gulp down hurriedly; to "snarf". (From WordCraft) May 20, 2008