Carn vs Cark - What's the difference?
carn | cark |
(Australia, informal) Come on.
(Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (especially football) team.
* 1956' September 10, "'''Carn the Magpies!", ''
* 2001 March 26, "Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected",
* 2004 February 12, "Keeping sport local on our ABC",
* 2011' October 11, "'''Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston", ''
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.
As an interjection carn
is come on.As a verb cark is
to be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.As a noun cark is
a noxious or corroding worry.carn
English
Interjection
(en interjection)The Argus
The Sydney Morning Herald
- Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.
The Age
- Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn', they cry, ' carn … feebly at first."
Herald Sun
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.