Stirk vs Shirk - What's the difference?
stirk | shirk |
(UK, Scotland, dialect, dated) A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 20:
*:he could stop a running stirk by the horns, so strong he was in the wrist-bones.
To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
* Hare
To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
* Byron
To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
* Bishop Rainbow
As nouns the difference between stirk and shirk
is that stirk is (uk|scotland|dialect|dated) a yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer while shirk is one who shirks or shirk can be (islam) the unforgivable sin of idolatry.As a verb shirk is
to avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc; to stay away from.stirk
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*shirk
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Etymology 1
First attested use in 1625 – 1635, apparently from association with shark (verb form), or from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties
- If you have a job, don't shirk from it by staying off work.
- One of the cities shirked from the league.
- You that never heard the call of any vocation, that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves.