irk

See also: ırk

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English irken (“to tire, grow weary”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse yrkja (“to work”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Icelandic yrkja (“to compose”), Swedish yrka (“to urge, argue”), Old English wyrcan, wyrċean (“to work”). More at work.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɜːk/
• IPA^(key): /ɝk/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)k

Verb

irk (third-person singular simple present irks, present participle irking, simple past and past participle irked)

1. (transitive) to irritate; annoy; bother

   It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:annoy

Derived terms

• irksome
• irky

Translations

to irritate; annoy; bother

• Bulgarian: безпокоя (bg) (bezpokoja), смущавам (bg) (smuštavam), досаждам (bg) (dosaždam)
• Finnish: ärsyttää (fi)
• French: agacer (fr), irriter (fr)
• German: ärgern (de)
• Hungarian: bosszant (hu)
• Italian: infastidire (it), irritare (it), seccare (it)
• Latin: piget, taedet
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: hakirara, whakahōhā, whakakūrakuraku, rangirangi, whakatōwenewene
• Norwegian: irritere (no), plage (no)
• Polish: drażnić (pl)
• Portuguese: aborrecer (pt)
• Russian: раздража́ть (ru) (razdražátʹ)
• Spanish: fastidiar (es)

Anagrams

• IKR, Kri, kir, rik

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Manx

Noun

irk

1. plural of ark