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carking

[ kahr-king ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Archaic.

Origin of carking¹

First recorded in 1560–70; cark, -ing ²

Thus, full of carking care, while he pushed aside the proffered consolation, Roger Acton walked abroad.

Distrustfulness, and carking cares, and contrivances for time to come.

All were in the pink of health, free from all carking cares and vanities of life, and they sang as if inspired.

I reckon you are now preparing for your Wexford expedition; and poor Dingley is full of carking and caring, scolding.

And she was far less cursed with "nerves," with feverish unrest and carking discontent, than women are to-day.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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