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Murk

//mɝk// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Dark, murky.

    "He cannot see through the mantle murk."

Noun
  1. 1
    Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment. uncountable

    "[…]in murk and occidental damp"

  2. 2
    an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured. intransitive

    "Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour..."

  2. 2
    To kill or eliminate. ambitransitive, slang

    "That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions."

  3. 3
    make dark, dim, or gloomy wordnet
  4. 4
    To beat up; to injure. ambitransitive, slang

    "cause we be murkin from the boogie And shittin on the crowds 'cause they jive fakin woody."

  5. 5
    To eliminate; to defeat overwhelmingly. ambitransitive, slang

    "POV: You're about to get murked by two of Philly's finest on the court. | @myteamtoyota"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English merke, mirke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“dark, gloomy, evil”) and Old Norse myrkr (“dark, murky”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”). Cognate Danish mørk (“dark”), Norwegian mørk (“dark”), Swedish mörk (“dark”), Icelandic myrkur (“dark”), as also Albanian murg (“dark”), Proto-Slavic *morkъ (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), murzinas (“dirty, spoiled”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English mirke, merke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“darkness, gloom”) and Old Norse myrkr (“darkness, gloom”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkwą, *mirkwiz (“darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English mirken, probably from Old Norse myrkja, myrkva (“to make dark, darken”), from Proto-Germanic *mirkwijaną, *mirkwajaną (“to make dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).

Etymology 4

Possibly an alteration of merc, from clipping of mercenary. First attested in the 1990s.

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