The verb to chork means to make the sound your feet make when your shoes are full of water, such as after misjudging a puddle. The word has been recorded since at least 1721 in a Scottish writer’s description of wet feet after wading through glens. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “After a Puddle, Wet Shoes “Chork” with Every Step”
Grant, do you know the word chork?
C-H-O-R-K.
Chork.
Is this a chubby fork?
Like a spork only.
Oh, it’s a fork made out of cheese.
I don’t know.
In Wisconsin, right.
It’s a fork for eating chalupas.
No, it’s a verb, actually. Chork. Let me read you this dictionary definition of what chork means.
To make the noise which the feet do when the shoes are full of water.
Oh, nice. Chork.
You, for some reason, have gotten your feet wet. You misjudged the size of the puddle.
Right.
And for the rest of the day, or at least until you can get those shoes off, you’re making a chork sound.
Yeah, yeah. And it’s been around at least since 1721 when a Scottish writer said,
Aft I have weed through glens with chalking feet.
Beautiful.
All right.
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