Cark vs Carl - What's the difference?
cark | carl |
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.
A rude, rustic man; a churl.
* 1974', In Lent noblemen and '''carls alike had got into the traces and pulled the carts of stone themselves. — Guy Davenport, ''Tatlin!
(obsolete) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.
*, New York 2001, p.210:
*:full of ache, sorrow, and grief, children again, dizzards, they carle many times as they sit, and talk to themselves, they are angry, waspish, displeased with everything […].
As nouns the difference between cark and carl
is that cark is (obsolete) a noxious or corroding worry while carl is a student at (carleton college), minnesota.As a verb cark
is to be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles or cark can be .As a proper noun carl is
.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.
