borking
See also: Borking
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɔːkiŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /bɔɹkiŋ/
- Hyphenation: bork‧ing
Noun edit
borking (plural borkings)
- (transitive, intransitive, US, politics, often derogatory) The act of defeating a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
- 2006 October 30, Jeffrey Lord, “Borking Rush”, in American Spectator[1], archived from the original on 17 October 2017:
- Above all it discusses the best tactics to defeat a borking. Having been in the [Ronald] Reagan White House when Robert Bork was borked, I knew something about the subject, which was a huge help when the same borking guns were turned on my friend Judge [D. Brooks] Smith years later.
Verb edit
borking
- present participle and gerund of bork.