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Cark vs Fark - What's the difference?

cark | fark |

As verbs the difference between cark and fark

is that cark is to be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles while fark is to subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding.

As a noun cark

is a noxious or corroding worry.

As an interjection fark is

eye dialect of nodot=true lang=en, used to express surprise, etc.

cark

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
  • * Spenser
  • His heavy head, devoid of careful cark .
  • * Motherwell
  • Fling cark and care aside.
  • * R. D. Blackmore
  • Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
  • (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.
  • Etymology 2

    From (caulk)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • References

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    fark

    English

    Etymology 1

    From fuck.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (Australia, NZ, vulgar) , used to express surprise, etc .
  • Usage notes
    In Australia and New Zealand, fark'' is only very slightly less offensive than fuck itself. The only difference in pronunciation between ''fark'' and ''fuck'' is in vowel length; ''fuck is pronounced in New Zealand.

    Etymology 2

    From the name of the popular website (Fark), because when it links to a small website from its main page, the small site is often subjected to so much new traffic that it is rendered inoperable due to server failure.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (US) To subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding.
  • See also

    * Slashdot effect ----