Cark vs Carb - What's the difference?
cark | carb |
To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
*1831 , (Adam Clarke), VI p.600:
*: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.
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*: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.
(obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
* Spenser
* Motherwell
* R. D. Blackmore
(obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.
(informal, usually, in the plural)
(informal)
As nouns the difference between cark and carb
is that cark is a noxious or corroding worry while carb is a shorter form of lang=en.As a verb cark
is to be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.cark
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- His heavy head, devoid of careful cark .
- Fling cark and care aside.
- Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
Etymology 2
From (caulk)References
*Anagrams
* ----carb
English
Noun
(en noun)- I'm cutting down on carbs to try and lose weight.
- This is what controls the flow of fuel into the carb .