Merked vs Murked - What's the difference?
merked | murked |
(murk)
Dark, murky
* J. R. Drake
Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
* 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=610682281&tag=Tarkington,+Booth,+1869-1946:+The+Magnificent+Ambersons;+illustrated+by+Arthur+William+Brown,+1918&query=+murking&id=TarMagn]
(AAVE) To murder or seriously injure.
* 2010 , Dana Dane, Numbers (page 232)
* 2011 , Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles (volume 2)
As verbs the difference between merked and murked
is that merked is past tense of merk while murked is past tense of murk.murked
English
Verb
(head)murk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) merke, mirke, from (etyl) ‘dark’.Alternative forms
* mirk * mark (dialectal)Adjective
(er)- He cannot see through the mantle murk .
Quotations
* (mirk)Noun
(-)- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* gloomVerb
(en verb)- Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
Derived terms
* murkySee also
* muckEtymology 2
Alternative forms
* merkVerb
(en verb)- That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
- He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.
