Carked vs Yarked - What's the difference?
carked | yarked |
(cark)
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.
(yark)
To make ready; prepare.
*1881 , Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland :
(obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
(obsolete) To set open; open.
To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
To crack (a whip).
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.96:
*:he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter''], as cunningly as any Carter in ''France .
As verbs the difference between carked and yarked
is that carked is (cark) while yarked is (yark).carked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *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
* ----yarked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*yark
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark , and leather to bark, [...]