cark
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kɑː(ɹ)k/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English carken, also charken (“to be anxious, worry; to load (sth.); to bear (crops)”), from Old Northern French carquier (“to load, worry”), from Latin carricāre (“to load”). Compare Old French chargier (“to load”); thus a doublet of charge.[1]
Verb
[edit]cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carking, simple past and past participle carked)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
- 1831, Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible, Comment on 2 Timothy 2: 22:
- Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age.
- 1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- [W]e shall see how in morbid melancholy this sense of the unreality of things may become a carking pain, and even lead to suicide.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- 1831, Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible, Comment on 2 Timothy 2: 22:
- (archaic, intransitive) To labor anxiously.
- 1849, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke's Song:
- Why for sluggards cark and moil?
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]cark (countable and uncountable, plural carks)
- (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44:
- His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.
- 1832, William Motherwell, They Come! The Merry Summer Months:
- Fling cark and care aside.
- 1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven:
- Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
- (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.
Descendants
[edit]- → Welsh: carc
Etymology 2
[edit]From caulk.
Verb
[edit]cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carking, simple past and past participle carked)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Middle English Dictionary carken (v.)
- “cark”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “cark”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Variant of thark (“enclosure”).
Noun
[edit]cark m
- Alternative form of cak
Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English carken. See cark above.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Southern Scots) IPA(key): /ˈkɑrk/
Noun
[edit]cark (plural carks)
- (archaic) worry, anxiety
Verb
[edit]cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carkin, simple past carkt, past participle carkt)
- (archaic) To worry or be anxious.
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