Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To burden or be burdened with trouble; worry.
- noun A worry; a trouble.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A load; a burden; a weight; specifically, an old measure of weight for wool, equal to the thirtieth part of a sarplar.
- noun A burden of care; a state of anxious solicitude; care; concern; trouble; distress.
- To load; burden; load or oppress with grief, anxiety, or care; worry; perplex; vex.
- To bring to be by care or anxiety; make by carking.
- To be full of care, anxious, solicitous, or concerned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic. A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.
- intransitive verb rare To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubled in mind; to worry or grieve.
- transitive verb rare To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb
Eye dialect spelling ofcaulk . - verb obsolete, intransitive To be filled with
worry ,solicitude , ortroubles . - verb obsolete, transitive To bring
worry ,vexation , oranxiety . - noun obsolete A noxious or corroding worry.
- noun obsolete The state of being filled with worry.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So he abode in cark and care and chagrin from morn to night and from night to morn.
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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the ship sped on her course, Kamar al-Zaman returned to the garden in cark and care; but — anon he rented the place of its owner and hired a man to help him in irrigating the trees.
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Now this King was become a very old man, weakened and wasted with age and sickness and decrepitude; for he had lived an hundred and fourscore years and had no child, male or female, by reason whereof he was ever in cark and care from morning to night and from night to morn.
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So he rose up and went out and threaded the streets awhile, but only increased in cark and care.
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a soul nor return a reply; and reaching the garden and sitting down in cark and care he threw dust on his head and buffeted his cheeks. —
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If whomever found him had never caught him before they shoulda shat on it. balancing act: Sorry to meatjack, but I have never run across "cark" before.
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= "I fail at life." balancing act: Sorry to meatjack, but I have never run across "cark" before.
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Sorry to meatjack, but I have never run across "cark" before.
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And they show that airport cark parks are big business, raking in around $244 million in the 2007-2008 financial year.
Why Airport Parking Is Such A Rip-Off | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Idibia's statement was quite specific, confirming that he was "still intact", with no immediate plans to cark it.
Global showbiz news 2011
reesetee commented on the word cark
To worry or to be burdened with worries.
I've been doing some serious carking lately, boyoboy.
October 3, 2007
uselessness commented on the word cark
Ha, there was a guy who went by the name Cark on a (now defunct) web site I used to frequent. I always assumed it was just a funny-sounding typo for what I figured was his real name, Carl.
October 3, 2007
reesetee commented on the word cark
Maybe Carl carked a lot?
October 3, 2007
yarb commented on the word cark
"To cark it" = to expire, drop dead.
E.g.
- "How's your uncle Bernie these days?"
- "Who? Oh, him: he carked it yonks ago."
October 4, 2007
arby commented on the word cark
This sounds vaguely Irish to me - like they're saying cork with an Irish accent.
October 4, 2007
reesetee commented on the word cark
I wonder how it went from meaning "worry" to meaning "drop dead"? (The "worry" definition being archaic.)
October 4, 2007
yarb commented on the word cark
- Gareth died at a rave, did he?
- Yeh, the soft twat, in-a back of a van. Comes out of jail that very fuckin day an to celebrate OD's on meth. Carked it. The prick.
- Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger
January 16, 2008
yarb commented on the word cark
...just as the body is liable to awful diseases and harsh pain, so we see the mind liable to carking care and grief and fear...
- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3. 459-461, tr. Rouse
June 25, 2008
yarb commented on the word cark
For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking care of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 35
July 25, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word cark
The two words are unlikely to be related. 'Cark' "die" is only very recently attested; it could be short for 'carcass'.
August 12, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word cark
There's a joy without canker or cark,
There's a pleasure eternally new,
'Tis to gloat on the glaze and the mark
Of china that's ancient and blue.
-Andrew Lang, Ballade of Blue China
August 26, 2014
qms commented on the word cark
For pessimists life has gone dark
Lit only by danger’s faint spark.
Expressions of joy
Serve but to annoy
A sufferer shrouded in cark.
June 21, 2018