murk
English
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GenAm" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /mɝk/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /mɜːk/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Etymology 1
From Middle English merke, mirke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“dark, gloomy, evil”) and Old Norse myrkr (“dark, murky”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”). Cognate Danish mørk (“dark”), Norwegian mørk (“dark”), Swedish mörk (“dark”), Icelandic myrkur (“dark”), as also Albanian murg (“dark”), Proto-Slavic *morkъ (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”).
Alternative forms
Adjective
murk (comparative murker, superlative murkest)
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mirk.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English mirke, merke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“darkness, gloom”) and Old Norse myrkr (“darkness, gloom”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkwą, *mirkwiz (“darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).
Noun
murk (uncountable)
- Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
- Synonym: gloom
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English mirken, probably from Old Norse myrkja, myrkva (“to make dark, darken”), from Proto-Germanic *mirkwijaną, *mirkwajaną (“to make dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).
Verb
murk (third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked)
- To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
- 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons [1]
- Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
- 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons [1]
Translations
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Etymology 4
Possibly an alteration of merc, from clipping of mercenary.
Alternative forms
Verb
murk (third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked)
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To murder or seriously injure.
- 1991, Camp Lo, Coolie High
- cause we be murkin from the boogie
- And shittin on the crowds
- 'cause they jive fakin woody.
- 2010, Dana Dane, Numbers (page 232)
- That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
- 2011, Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles (volume 2)
- He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.
- 2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club[2], archived from the original on 31 May 2018:
- In truth, there are Easter eggs planted in just about every frame of Ready Player One, which never misses an opportunity to insert a recognizable character (hey, is that Jason Voorhees getting merked during the film’s first-person shooter level?) or toss a sop to the faithful.
- 1991, Camp Lo, Coolie High
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