Wark Definition

noun

(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Pain; ache.

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(obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A building.

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verb

(intransitive) To be in pain; ache.

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Other Word Forms of Wark

Noun

Singular:
wark
Plural:
warks

Origin of Wark

  • From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”), from Proto-Germanic *warkiz (“pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-, *wreǵ- (“to work, act”). Cognate with Swedish värk (“ache, pain”), Icelandic verkur (“pain”). Related to work.

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  • From Middle English werken, warchen, from Old English wærcan (“to be in pain”). Cognate with Swedish värka (“to ache, pain”), Icelandic verkja (“to pain”). See above.

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  • See work.

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Wark Sentence Examples

  • Hannah had to explain to her American friend that where she's from a wark meant a pain.

  • Second installment of our multi-year project to show the entire surviving oeuvre of the great pioneer master David Wark Griffith.

  • Some English strongholds, such as Alnwick, Chillingham, Ford and Naworth, have been modernized; others, like Norham, Wark and Warkworth, are picturesque ruins; but most of the Scottish fortresses have been demolished and their sites built over, or are now represented by grass-grown mounds.

  • After securing his flank and rear by taking Norham, Wark and Eitel castles, he awaited the approach of Surrey's army at Ford castle, behind which lies Flodden Edge, a strong position, which he presently occupied.

  • My Scottish cousin uses the word wark instead of work.

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