The verb first appeared in print in 1988, enclosed in quotation marks, as in the Chicago Tribune of November 20, 1988: “Honest disagreement is one thing; ‘borking’ is something else.” In February 1989, Republican Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming commented on CBS This Morning: “I feel strongly that he [Senator John Tower] is being borked. … The charges that have been leveled at him have all proved groundless, baseless.”

Push-ups give girls with smaller breasts an extra bit of lift and shape.

[…] I would have thee gone: And yet no further than a wanton’s bird; Who lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty.

But Jane and Jacob are going to have quantities of champagne. Not tipsy, you understand, but at their best, and unguardedly appreciative of each other and us.