Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English transposed form of
crooked .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Turned upward; bent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Turned
upward ;bent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A mother should not enter a neighbour's house after having an infant before she is "kirked"; nor should she carry her child even to her nearest and dearest friend's abode before the little one has been baptized.
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How soon the internets forget ... the meaning of being kirked?
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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How soon the internets forget ... the meaning of being kirked?
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But when she was cried and married and kirked, each time it was a dagger at my heart.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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This evil result was sought to be averted by the bride wearing a sixpence in her left shoe till she was _kirked_; but should the bride have made a vow to any other, and broken it, this wearing of the sixpence did not prevent the evil consequences from falling upon her first-born.
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847
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This woman dealt with it very calmly around him but when she came back to the shows mansion she kirked out and her fellow single gals had to calm her down.
Blogtimore, Hon 2009
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