cark

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A noxious or corroding worry. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.
  2. The state of being filled with worry. countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles. intransitive,obsolete
    — [W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?
  2. Pronunciation spelling of caulk. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling
  3. To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety. intransitive,obsolete,transitive
    — Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age.
  4. To labor anxiously. archaic,intransitive
    — Why for sluggards cark and moil?

词形变化

carks present,singular,third-person carking participle,present carked participle,past carked past carks plural carks present,singular,third-person carking participle,present carked participle,past carked past

词汇关系

衍生词
overcark

词源

词源 1
From Middle English carken (“to be anxious, worry”, intransitive), from Old English *carcian ("to be sorrowful, worry"; found in becarcian (“to worry about, care for”)), a frequentative form of Old English carian (“to care”), equivalent to care + -k.
The Middle English carken, also charken (“to load (sth.); to bear (crops); to burden, harass”, transitive), from Old Northern French carquier (“to load, burden”), from Latin carricāre (“to load”), related to Old French chargier (“to load”), is a different word often confused with the above.
词源 2
From Middle English cark, kark (“worry”), from Old English carc (“sorrow, worry”).
词源 3
From caulk.
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