forkenadj.
/ˈfɔːk(ə)n/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
Forked.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [adjective] > bifurcated
twiselc1000
forked1398
twisted1398
grained1513
bi-furked?1545
biforked1578
two-forked1579
crotched1587
forken1631
twi-forked1635
bifurcous1656
forky1702
swallow-tailed1726
bidential1730
bifurcate1835
bifurcated1853
bifurcal1861
1631 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 4) 52 He had a forken [1603, etc.: forked] beard and bald head.
Compounds
forken-robin n. the earwig.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dermaptera > member of (earwig)
earwigeOE
beetle-wig1595
earworm1598
twitch-ballock1634
forken-robin1691
twitch-bell1722
twinge1790
twitch1790
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Forkin-robbin, an earwig; called from its forked tail. So in Bailey (1721) and Atkinson Cleveland Gloss. (1868).
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adj.1631