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Bilk vs Birk - What's the difference?

bilk | birk |

As nouns the difference between bilk and birk

is that bilk is the spoiling of someone's score in the crib while birk is a birch tree. Cognate with Scots {{term|birk|lang=sco}}.

As a verb bilk

is to spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.

bilk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
  • (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
  • To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
  • *2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 615:
  • *:They also perpetrate nonviolent crimes like bilking elderly couples out of their life savings and running a business with ruthless disregard for the welfare of the workforce or stakeholders.

    • birk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northern English) A birch tree. Cognate with Scots birk.
    • (rfdate) The silver birk . - .
  • A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus ).
  • (British, slang)

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