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lark
English
Alternative forms
- laverock, lavrock
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: läk, IPA(key): /l??k/
- (General American) enPR: lärk, IPA(key): /l??k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
Etymology 1
From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English l?werce, l?werce, l?uricæ, from Proto-Germanic *laiwarik?, *laiwazik? (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.
Noun
lark (plural larks)
- Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
- Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
- (by extension) One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
- Synonyms: early bird, early riser
- Antonym: owl
Hyponyms
- (species in Alaudidae): woodlark, skylark, magpie-lark, horned lark, sea lark, crested lark, shorelark
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lark (third-person singular simple present larks, present participle larking, simple past and past participle larked)
- To catch larks (type of bird).
References
- lark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Alaudidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Alaudidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain, either
- from a northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (around 1300, from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)), with an intrusive -r- as is common in southern British dialects; or
- a shortening of skylark (1809), sailors' slang, "play roughly in the rigging of a ship", because the common European larks were proverbial for high-flying; Dutch has a similar idea in speelvogel (“playbird, a person of markedly playful nature”).
Noun
lark (plural larks)
- A romp, frolic, some fun.
- A prank.
Synonyms
- whim, especially in phrase on a whim, see also Thesaurus:whim
Derived terms
- on a lark
Related terms
- skylark (in verb sense "play")
Translations
Verb
lark (third-person singular simple present larks, present participle larking, simple past and past participle larked)
- To sport, engage in harmless pranking.
- 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, Chapter 35,[3]
- […] the porter at the rail-road had seen a scuffle; or when he found it was likely to bring him in as a witness, then it might not have been a scuffle, only a little larking […]
- 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, Chapter 35,[3]
- To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lark”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
- Karl, Klar, Kral, klar
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glark
English
Etymology
Slight variation of glork in the constructed sentence "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context", by David Moser
Pronunciation
Verb
glark (third-person singular simple present glarks, present participle glarking, simple past and past participle glarked)
- (slang, transitive) To guess (the meaning of an unfamiliar word) based on hearing its use in context.
See also
- glark in the Jargon File
References
- Douglas Hofstadter, "Metamagical Themas", Scientific American, January 1981
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