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Idiom
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to speak with/have a forked tongue, to speak deceitfully; attempt to deceive.
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Forked
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noun
1.
an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., as an implement for handling food or any of various agricultural tools.
2.
something resembling or suggesting this in form.
4.
Machinery. yoke1 (def. 9).
5.
EXPANDa division into branches.
6.
the point or part at which a thing, as a river or a road, divides into branches: Bear left at the fork in the road.
7.
either of the branches into which a thing divides.
8.
Horology. (in a lever escapement) the forked end of the lever engaging with the ruby pin.
9.
a principal tributary of a river.
10.
the support of the front wheel axles of a bicycle or motorcycle, having the shape of a two-pronged fork.
11.
COLLAPSEthe barbed head of an arrow.
verb (used with object)
12.
to pierce, raise, pitch, dig, etc., with a fork.
13.
to make into the form of a fork.
14.
Chess. to maneuver so as to place (two opponent's pieces) under simultaneous attack by the same piece.
verb (used without object)
Verb phrase15.
to divide into branches: Turn left where the road forks.
16.
to turn as indicated at a fork in a road, path, etc.: Fork left and continue to the top of the hill.
17.
fork over/out/up, Informal. to hand over; deliver; pay: Fork over the money you owe me!
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English forke, Old English forca < Latin furca fork, gallows, yoke
before 1000; Middle English forke, Old English forca < Latin furca fork, gallows, yoke
Related forms
fork·less, adjective
fork·like, adjective
un·fork, verb (used with object)
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Word Origin & History
fork
O.E. forca "forked instrument used by torturers," from L. furca "pitchfork," of uncertain origin. Table forks were not generally used in England until 15c. The word is first attested in this sense in English in a will of 1463, probably from O.N.Fr. forque, from the L. word. The verb "to divide in branches"
EXPANDis from the noun. Related: Forked; forking. The slang verb phrase fork up (or out) "give over" is from 1831.
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Computing Dictionary
forked definition
jargon(Unix; probably after "fucked") Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an inadvertent fork bomb.
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-14)
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