Cark vs Fark - What's the difference?
cark | fark |
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.
(US) To subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding.
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)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.