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This comes from a German word meaning "curds" and is not related to the subatomic particle called a quark, a name coined by Murray Gell-Mann, who originally pronounced it as "quork."
Week in Words Erin McKean 2012
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It is no quirk that the avid reader of James Joyce and a qualified linguist, atomic physicist Murray Gell-Mann, chose quark over quork, based on the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in "Finnegan's Wake," because he had found there were three kinds of quarks in a proton and the word echoed the phrase "three quarts for Mister" elsewhere in the novel "Dairy Daring: Quark," Week in Words, Jan. 21.
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They were still trading chatter: rapid, burbling sounds punctuated by an occasional quork.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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They were still trading chatter: rapid, burbling sounds punctuated by an occasional quork.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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They were still trading chatter: rapid, burbling sounds punctuated by an occasional quork.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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They were still trading chatter: rapid, burbling sounds punctuated by an occasional quork.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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Some witnesses refused even to answer some of these questions. quork
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The sermons on a Sunday morning are actually fairly evangelical. quork
The Episcopalians do something impressive - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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From the back of the chair beside her, Neville bobbed his head, fluffed his feathers, and uttered a short "quork."
The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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Something like a quork, and something like a caw, it made Puck glance at him and nod.
The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005
seanahan commented on the word quork
A mythical chess position, where a knight is attacking 4 pieces at once.
February 21, 2007
dzechiel commented on the word quork
This "word" has nothing to do with chess.
September 16, 2010
yarb commented on the word quork
Are you kidding? Call yourself a chess player and you've never heard of a quork? Words fail me.
September 16, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word quork
I like to spread quork chess on crackers--it's even smoother when you add umbrage.
September 16, 2010
yarb commented on the word quork
You can talk the talk, ruzuzuzuzuzu - but can you quork the quork?
September 17, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word quork
I take umbrage at the very question--thanks! Oh, and could you pass that butter knife?
September 17, 2010
bilby commented on the word quork
I was brought up not to quork unless quoken to.
September 17, 2010
qroqqa commented on the word quork
Of course not. A bilby is not a quokka.
This word seems the logical progression of a series denoting how many pieces a chess piece is attacking at once: quork, trork, bork, mork, and the harmless nork. More boards and new rules are required to achieve the higher-dimensional possibilities: hork, sork, ork, eeyork, and dork.
September 17, 2010
bilby commented on the word quork
What's qroqqa know about quokkas?
September 17, 2010
yarb commented on the word quork
Would a queen, with her octo-directional threat, not be capable of horking, at the very least?
I agree that to achieve a dork is not possible under current parameters.
September 17, 2010
qroqqa commented on the word quork
Oh, a queen can ork, yes, of course. A queen can ork at a king. Or a cow. If a cow strayed onto the field. You could probably set it up so that both queens are co-orkers.
September 18, 2010
raven_in_the_woods commented on the word quork
found in the Coastal Northeastern North Carolina vernacular to mean a large bird, usually a Great Blue Heron, or a similar bird of the family Ardeidae, and based on the eerily prehistoric sound it makes upon being startled, "QUORK!"
September 22, 2010
yarb commented on the word quork
obviously a chess-playing bird
September 22, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word quork
That's the difference--cow's milk is used to make quark cheese, but bird's milk is used to make quork chess.
September 22, 2010