cark

Pronunciation: /kɑː(ɹ)k/

The English word “cark” has 5 meanings listed here.

verb

To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
To labor anxiously.

noun

A noxious or corroding worry.
The state of being filled with worry.

Etymology

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…

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