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lark | cark |

As a proper noun lark

is , from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks.

As a verb cark is

to be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles or cark can be .

As a noun cark is

(obsolete) a noxious or corroding worry.

lark

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) larke, laverke, from (etyl) ), of unknown ultimate origin with no known cognates outside of Germanic.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae .
  • Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
  • One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
    • Synonyms
    * (one who wakes early) early bird, early riser
    Hyponyms
    * woodlark, skylark, magpie-lark, horned lark, sea lark, crested lark, shorelark
    Related terms
    * happy as a lark * lark bunting * larker * lark sparrow * larkspur, plant * skylark, the bird

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To catch larks.
    • to go larking

    External links

    * (lark) * (Alaudidae) * (Alaudidae)

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain, either * from a northern English dialectal term (lake)/), with an intrusive -r- as is common in southern British dialects; or * a shortening of (skylark) (1809), sailors' slang, "play roughly in the rigging of a ship", because the common European larks were proverbial for high-flying; Dutch has a similar idea in .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A romp, frolic, some fun.
    • (Charles Dickens)
  • A prank.
    • Synonyms
    * whim, especially in phrase on a whim
    Derived terms
    * on a lark

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sport, engage in harmless pranking.
  • To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.

    • References

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    Anagrams

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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.
  • *
  • *: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

    (en noun)
  • (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)

    Verb

    (en verb)

    • References

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    Anagrams

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