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murk
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /m?k/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m??k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
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 *merg?- (“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 *mork? (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), Ancient Greek ??????? (amorbós, “dark”).
Alternative forms
- mirk (archaic)
- mark (dialectal)
Adjective
murk (comparative murker, superlative murkest)
- Dark, murky
- J. R. Drake
- He cannot see through the mantle murk.
- J. R. Drake
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mirk.
Derived terms
- murken
Etymology 2
From Middle English mirke, merke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“darkness, gloom”) and Old Norse myrkr (“darkness, gloom”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkw?, *mirkwiz (“darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *merg?- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).
Noun
murk (uncountable)
- Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
- Synonym: gloom
Derived terms
- murky
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English mirken, probably from Old Norse myrkja, myrkva (“to make dark, darken”), from Proto-Germanic *mirkwijan?, *mirkwajan? (“to make dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *merg?- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).
Verb
murk (third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked)
- To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
- 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons [1]
- Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
- 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons [1]
Translations
Etymology 4
Possibly an alteration of merc, from clipping of mercenary.
Alternative forms
- merk
Verb
murk (third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked)
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To murder or seriously injure.
- 1991, Camp Lo, Coolie High
- cause we be murkin from the boogie
- And shittin on the crowds
- 'cause they jive fakin woody.
- 2010, Dana Dane, Numbers (page 232)
- That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
- 2011, Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles (volume 2)
- He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.
- 1991, Camp Lo, Coolie High
Anagrams
- Krum
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dusk
English
Etymology
From Middle English dosk, duske (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?uh?s- (compare Old Irish donn (“dark”), Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit ???? (dh?sara, “dust-colored”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“smoke, mist, haze”). More at dye. Related to dust.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?sk/
- Rhymes: -?sk
Noun
dusk (countable and uncountable, plural dusks)
- A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
- A darkish colour.
- Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
- The condition of being dusky; duskiness
Synonyms
- (period of time): evenfall, nightfall, smokefall, vespers; see also Thesaurus:dusk
Antonyms
- (period of time): dawn, daybreak; see also Thesaurus:dawn
Hypernyms
- (period of time): twilight; see also Thesaurus:twilight
Hyponyms
- astronomical dusk
- civil dusk
- nautical dusk
Translations
See also
- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
Verb
dusk (third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked)
- (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
- 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27
- I see the air benighted
And all the dusking dales,
And lamps in England lighted,
- I see the air benighted
- 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27
- (transitive) To make dusk.
- After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.
Translations
Adjective
dusk (comparative dusker, superlative duskest)
- Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
See also
- dusk at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- skud
Middle English
Adjective
dusk
- Alternative form of dosk
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