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