Murks vs Murus - What's the difference?
murks | murus |
(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)
(palynology) A pattern-forming ridge on the surface of a pollen grain.
As nouns the difference between murks and murus
is that murks is botch, bodge while murus is (palynology) a pattern-forming ridge on the surface of a pollen grain.murks
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.