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Burked vs Murked - What's the difference?

burked | murked |

As verbs the difference between burked and murked

is that burked is (burke) while murked is (murk).

burked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (burke)

    • burke

    English

    Verb

    (burk)
  • (UK, slang) To murder in the same manner as Burke, to kill by suffocation
  • *1829 February 2 , Times (London), 3/5
  • *:As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke' him, '''Burke''' him—give him no rope’... were vociferated... ‘' Burke Hare too!’
  • (UK, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons,
  • *1833 , T. Hook, Parson's Daughter , II. i. 26
  • *:Perhaps he is Burked , and his body sold for nine pounds.
  • *1836 , Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers , :
    • ‘You don’t mean to say he was burked , Sam?’ said Mr. Pickwick, looking hastily round.
  • (UK, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
  • *1835 , J. A. Roebuck. Dorchester Labourers , 6/1 (note)
  • *:The reporters left it out... Those who spoke in favour of the poor men, were what the reporters call burked .
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, page 128:
    • He put away—burked —the Directors' letter, and went in to talk to Riley
  • :1953 , (Robert Graves), Poems , 4
  • ::Socrates and Plato burked the issue.

    • Related terms

    * To bishop

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, slang) Variant spelling of berk.

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    * English eponyms

    murked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (murk)

    • murk

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) merke, mirke, from (etyl) ‘dark’.

    Alternative forms

    * mirk * mark (dialectal)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Dark, murky
  • * J. R. Drake
    • He cannot see through the mantle murk .
    Quotations
    * (mirk)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * gloom

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
  • * 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=610682281&tag=Tarkington,+Booth,+1869-1946:+The+Magnificent+Ambersons;+illustrated+by+Arthur+William+Brown,+1918&query=+murking&id=TarMagn]
    • Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
    Derived terms
    * murky

    See also

    * muck

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * merk

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (AAVE) To murder or seriously injure.
  • * 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.

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