Lark vs Lauk - What's the difference?
lark | lauk |
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.
* 1861 , , Philadelphia (1861), page
As a noun lark
is any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.As a verb lark
is to catch larks.As a proper noun Lark
is {{surname|from=nicknames}}, from {{term|lark|lang=en}} as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks.As an interjection lauk is
an alternative form of lang=en.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)Synonyms
* (one who wakes early) early bird, early riserHyponyms
* woodlark, skylark, magpie-lark, horned lark, sea lark, crested lark, shorelarkExternal 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 .Synonyms
* whim, especially in phrase on a whimDerived terms
* on a larkReferences
* *Anagrams
*lauk
English
Interjection
(en interjection)77:
- Lauk a mercy on me... .