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Synonyms for hork

Most common

scarf gobble scoff hawk hock bork

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Scarf — to eat hastily or greedily; to gobble

scarf, gobble, scoff

2. Hawk — to vomit, cough up

hawk, hock

Other

bork, hoark slang

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To vomit, cough up.

  2. v. 2

    To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.

    I don't know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!

Forms

Past participle
horked
e.g. horked → scarfed, gobbled, scoffed, hawked…

Example sentences

  • scarf Tom unwrapped the scarf from his around his face.
  • gobble Don't gobble all the food up before I get back.
  • scoff It's easy to scoff; it's better to understand.
  • hawk Tom has been watching Mary like a hawk all morning.
  • hock The U.S. is in hock up to its eyeballs.
  • bork The senators are trying to bork the nominee.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
horksteady
scarfrising
gobblerising
scoffrising
hawkrising
hocksteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
hawk1, hock1, bork1
5 letters
scarf1, scoff1, hoark
6 letters
gobble2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gobble2 = 2 syllables).