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Mirk vs Murk - What's the difference?

mirk | murk | Alternative forms |

Murk is a alternative form of mirk.



As nouns the difference between mirk and murk

is that mirk is an archaic spelling of lang=en while murk is darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.

As verbs the difference between mirk and murk

is that mirk is an archaic spelling of lang=en while murk is to make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.

As adjectives the difference between mirk and murk

is that mirk is an archaic spelling of lang=en while murk is dark, murky.

mirk

English

Noun

(-)
  • * 1899 , , Grey Weather , 2008, page 4,
    • The thickness of mirk is bad enough, but the thickness of white, illimitable ether is worse a thousandfold, for it closes the eye and mazes the wits.
  • * 1900 , , The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay , 2008, page 18,
    • Outside the chapel in the weeping mirk a squire held his shield, another his helm, a groom walked his horse.
  • * 1900 , , The Great Boer War , 2010, unnumbered page,
    • The English cries of the soldiers were answered in English by the Boers, and slouch hat or helmet dimly seen in the mirk was the only badge of friend or foe.
  • * 2011 , Douglas Watt, Testament of a Witch , page 178,
    • She disappeared into the gathering mirk .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1903 , J. Vinton Webster, Augusta: A Drama in Four Acts , Act 4, Scene 1, 2004, page 121,
    • And there they lay so near his little heart, / With whispering of things that happened not, / Until the serpent green had mirked / His manly vision in a way that lost / The anchorage of balanced sanity.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • * , The Scottish History of James the Fourth'', Act 5, Chorus 6, Norman Sanders (editor), 1973, ''The Revels Plays: James the Fourth , page 128,
    • What gars this din of mirk and baleful harm, / Where everywean is all betaint with bloud?
  • * 1809 , , Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm'', 1834, ''The Works of Lord Byron , Volume 7, page 311,
    • Chill and mirk is the nightly blast, / Where Pindus' mountains rise, / And angry clouds are pouring fast / The vengeance of the skies.
  • * 1823 , , Ringan Gilhaize: Or, The Covenanters , Volume 1, page 95,
    • It was by this time the mirkest of the gloaming, for they had purposely tarried on the journey that they might enter Edinburgh at dusk.
  • * 1887 , '', from ''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables ,
    • It's a lang, laigh, mirk chalmer, perishin' cauld in winter, an' no very dry even in the tap o' the simmer, for the manse stands near the burn.

    Quotations

    * ----

    murk

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) merke, mirke, from (etyl) ‘dark’.

    Alternative forms

    * mirk * mark (dialectal)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Dark, murky
  • * J. R. Drake
    • He cannot see through the mantle murk .
    Quotations
    * (mirk)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * gloom

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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]
    • Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
    Derived terms
    * murky

    See also

    * muck

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * merk

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (AAVE) To murder or seriously injure.
  • * 2010 , Dana Dane, Numbers (page 232)
    • That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
  • * 2011 , Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles (volume 2)
    • He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.

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