carped English
Verb
(head)
(carp)
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carp Etymology 1
From (etyl) carpe, from .
Noun
(en-noun)
Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae'', especially the common carp, ''Cyprinus carpio .
See also
* koi
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Verb
( en verb)
To complain about a fault; to harp on.
(obsolete) To say; to tell.
(obsolete) To find fault with; to censure.
- (Dryden)
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carked English
Verb
(head)
(cark)
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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
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(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)
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