cark
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of cark
1250–1300; Middle English carken to be anxious, Old English becarcian, apparently derivative of car- (base of caru care ) + -k suffix
Example Sentences
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The pursuit eventually came to an end after Ali pulled into a pub cark park in Southbrook Road, where he ran from the vehicle and attempted to climb a fence.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2024
The website outlining the project said about 250 single men would be housed in temporary units in the hotel cark park with another 150 in the existing 37-bedroom building.
From BBC ● May 8, 2023
Set your mind to live merrily, in the name of God and good folks; let no other cark nor care be harboured within the sacrosanctified domicile of your celestial brain.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Around the hardest cark and toil lies the imaginative world of the poets and romancists, and thither we sometimes escape to snatch a mouthful of serener air.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith
Accordingly, the Princess called for ink-case and paper and wrote these couplets:— Ho thou who wouldst vaunt thee of cark and care; * How many love-molten, tryst-craving be there?
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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