Etymology

orkish

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Today it means: Of, pertaining to, or sharing similarities with an orc. Full definition →

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The story

Variant of orcish. Popularized by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.