Corked vs Carked - What's the difference?
corked | carked |
(cork)
Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 554:
Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.
(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.
As verbs the difference between corked and carked
is that corked is (cork) while carked is (cark).As an adjective corked
is of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.corked
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked .
- Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?
Anagrams
* *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.
