Muru vs Murk - What's the difference?
muru | 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 nouns the difference between muru and murk
is that muru is an act of retaliatory theft among the maori while murk is poison.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.