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wark.

Pain; ache.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/wɔːk/Received-Pronunciation/wɔɹk/General-American
  1. Pain; ache.

    Northern-England · Scotland · UK · dialectal
Where this word comes from

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

verb/wɔːk/Received-Pronunciation/wɔɹk/General-American
  1. To be in pain; ache.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

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.

noun/wɔːk/Received-Pronunciation/wɔɹk/General-American
  1. Work.

    Scotland · obsolete
  2. A building.

    Scotland · obsolete
Where this word comes from

See work.

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