different between wark vs zark
wark
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)
- (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)
- (intransitive) To be in pain; ache.
Etymology 3
See work.
Noun
wark (plural warks)
- (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A building.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
Anagrams
- rawk
Kashubian
Noun
wark m
- business
- profession
Northeast Pashayi
Noun
wark
- 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)
- work
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zark
English
Etymology
Coined by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978).
Pronunciation
Interjection
zark
- (slang, euphemistic) Fuck.
Derived terms
- zarking
- zark off
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