Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:58:27 -0700

From: William King wfking[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU

Subject: Re: A new term?



On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Bethany K. Dumas wrote:



On another list, someone posted the ff.:



We had our own three cats when my daughter landed us with the three

brother cats she had found as kittens in the Minnesota woods. You can

believe our three were pretty horked off, ...

^^^^^^^^^^



The term "horked off" is new to me. Anyone else know it? (I don't have

DARE here.)



That just seems to be a variant of "torked off" which may be a

combination of "torque" and "dork". Anyhow, the cats were pissed off.



Bill King