cark
[ kahrk ]
noun
care or worry.
verb (used with or without object)
to worry.
Origin of cark
11250–1300; Middle English carken to be anxious, Old English becarcian, apparently derivative of car- (base of carucare) + -k suffix
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How to use cark in a sentence
We therein read his inmost carks and cares, and his passionate entreaties that the Queen-Regent would open her mind to him.
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) | Sutherland Menzies
British Dictionary definitions for cark (1 of 2)
cark1
/ (kɑːk) /
noun, verb
an archaic word for worry (def. 1), worry (def. 2), worry (def. 11), worry (def. 13)
Origin of cark
1C13 carken to burden, from Old Northern French carquier, from Late Latin carricāre to load
British Dictionary definitions for cark (2 of 2)
cark2
/ (kɑːk) /
verb
(intr) Australian slang to break down; die
Origin of cark
2perhaps from the cry of the crow, as a carrion feeding bird
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