Shalk

//ʃɔːk// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A servant. obsolete
  2. 2
    A man; fellow. UK, dialectal

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birdblokecatchapcoveydude

Antonyms

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sheila

Etymology

From Middle English schalk, scalk, from Old English scealc (“servant; man, soldier, sailor”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalk, from Proto-Germanic *skalkaz (“servant, knight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cleave, separate, part, divide”). Cognate with German Schalk (“joker”), Old Norse skálkr (“servant, rogue”) ( > Danish and Swedish skalk), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐍃 (skalks, “servant”).

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