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borkage

noun

Etymology

From bork + -age.

  1. derived from porcus
  2. derived from porc
  3. inherited from pork
  4. compounded as bork — “boink + pork”
  5. suffixed as borkage — “bork + age”

Definitions

  1. A failure or breakdown.

    • Sadly, 2018 was not done with the devices and further borkages followed later in the year.
    • Stop yawning at the back, this stuff may not be fancy new iPhones or sweet silicon stuff, but it's good for code-wrangling developers struggling to spot borkages in their work.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA