Date:  Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:18:29 +0000
From:  Duane Campbell <dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EPIX.NET>
Subject: Re: horked off

George Donahue wrote:

> > The term "horked off" is new to me. Anyone else know it? (I don't have
> > DARE here.)
> >
>
> I've heard "hork" used often in Northwest Florida and southern Alabama,
> especially among Cajun commercial fishermen along the Gulf Coast, to mean "to
> vomit."

Dave Bary wrote a very funny piece about dinner time around the Barry
table. The dog saw sitting down at the table as a signal to begin makine
loud horking sounds. Anyone who has a dog knows this sound. It is not
vomiting, but rather a precurser to vomiting.


Duane Campbell
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