different between fark vs wark

English

Etymology 1

From fuck.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /f??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Interjection

fark

1. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) Pronunciation spelling of fuck, used to express surprise, etc.

Usage notes

In Australia and New Zealand, fark is only very slightly less offensive than fuck itself. The only difference in pronunciation between fark and fuck is in vowel length; fuck is pronounced /f?k/.

Etymology 2

From the name of the popular website Fark, because when it links to a small website from its main page, the small site is often subjected to so much new traffic that it is rendered inoperable due to server failure.

Verb

fark (third-person singular simple present farks, present participle farking, simple past and past participle farked)

1. (Internet, transitive, US) To subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding.

See also

• Slashdot effect

Anagrams

• frak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????, form Arabic ?????? (farq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?k/
• Hyphenation: fark

Noun

fark (definite accusative fark?, plural farklar)

1. difference

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??(?)k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”), from Proto-Germanic *warkiz (“pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer?- (“to make, work, act”). Cognate with Swedish värk (“ache, pain”), Icelandic verkur (“pain”). Related to work.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Pain; ache.

Derived terms

• bellywark
• headwark

Etymology 2

From Middle English werken, warchen, from Old English wærcan (“to be in pain”). Cognate with Swedish värka (“to ache, pain”), Icelandic verkja (“to pain”). See above.

Verb

wark (third-person singular simple present warks, present participle warking, simple past and past participle warked)

1. (intransitive) To be in pain; ache.

Etymology 3

See work.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

1. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A building.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Anagrams

• rawk

Kashubian

Noun

wark m

1. business
2. profession

Northeast Pashayi

Noun

wark

1. water

Further reading

• Robert Leech, Vocabularies of seven languages, spoken in the countries west of the Indus; also Epitome of the Grammars of the Brahuiky, Balochky & Panjabi Languages (1843)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English work, werk, from Old English worc, weorc, ?eweorc, from Proto-Germanic *werk? (“work”), from Proto-Indo-European *wér?om.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

1. work