cark

[ kahrk ]

noun
  1. care or worry.

verb (used with or without object)
  1. to worry.

Origin of cark

1
1250–1300; 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) /


Origin of cark

1
C13 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
  1. (intr) Australian slang to break down; die

Origin of cark

2
perhaps from the cry of the crow, as a carrion feeding bird

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