Cark

//kɑː(ɹ)k// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village in Lower Holker parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD3676).
Noun
  1. 1
    A noxious or corroding worry. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke."

  2. 2
    The state of being filled with worry. countable, obsolete, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles. intransitive, obsolete

    "[W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?"

  2. 2
    Pronunciation spelling of caulk. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
  3. 3
    disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed wordnet
  4. 4
    To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety. intransitive, obsolete, transitive

    "Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age."

  5. 5
    To labor anxiously. archaic, intransitive

    "Why for sluggards cark and moil?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English carken (“to be anxious, worry”, intransitive), from Old English *carcian ("to be sorrowful, worry"; found in becarcian (“to worry about, care for”)), a frequentative form of Old English carian (“to care”), equivalent to care + -k. The Middle English carken, also charken (“to load (sth.); to bear (crops); to burden, harass”, transitive), from Old Northern French carquier (“to load, burden”), from Latin carricāre (“to load”), related to Old French chargier (“to load”), is a different word often confused with the above.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cark, kark (“worry”), from Old English carc (“sorrow, worry”).

Etymology 3

From caulk.

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