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To kevork someone is to assist him in the commission of suicide--an eponym derived proximately, of course, from the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, but made possible by the prior success of the rhyming verb to bork (from the name Robert Bork, and meaning to use every means possible to sabotage a nominee to high office).
This outdated prison slang is used almost nostalgically, in the same way that some people still employ Cockney rhyming slag (which was once itself an anti-language).
But some of our own anti-battle cries have been a little lazy, perhaps because of the too-easy rhyming of "four" and "war"--as in "one, two, three, four/ we don't want your stinking ..."
But many people interested in such things have never heard of Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, The Edinburgh Review, Century Magazine , and others that provided intellectuals with a worldwide communications network on such diverse subjects as Shakespeariana, Danteiana, the origin of visiting cards, the etymologies of words like punch, noyade, and ha-ha , amendments and emendations to the Dictionary of National Biography , showers of frogs, pub names, usage and grammar, ancient customs, superstitions, law, dialecticisms, rhyming slang, and the longevity of horses.
Most of the expressions cited are totally unfamiliar to me, and I suggest that Mr. Day has played with a rhyming dictionary and dreamed many of them up for himself--harmless enough, but he ought not to pass them off as being in common usage.
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