hork

Meaning

Verb

• To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.
• To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.
• To vomit, cough up.
• To throw.
• To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.
• To move.

Related

Similar words

• bork
• hork
• hawk, hock
• gobble, scarf, scoff

Origin

• 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.