Cark

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CARK, sb. and v. Sc. Nhb. Cum. Yks. Lan. Pem. Glo. Suf. I.W. Som. [kerk, kark, kāk.]

1. sb. Care, anxiety, sorrow; greediness; gen. used in phr. care and cark. Abd. My blud ran cauld, wi' cark and care Through ilka vein, Cock Strains (1810) I. 115. Lnk. Up, up, my heart, and walk abroad, fling cark and care aside, Motherwell Summer Months (1827). N.Cy.1 Nhb. But yet, for a' his care and cark, Dame Fortune sour Has hardly blessed him wi' a sark, Strang Earth Fiend (1892) i. st. 10. n.Yks.2 Lan. Gaskell Lectures Dial. (1854) 12; Th' cark an' wark uv this warld, Axon Black Kt. (1870) 12. Glo.1
2. v. To fret, complain, be anxious. n.Yks.2 Lan. Davies Races (1856) 241; Lan.1 Suf. A baby ‘du cark an' puke, that fare right pingly-wingly,’ e.An. Dy. Times (1892); How he do cark (C.G.B.). w.Som.1 Hot's the good to bide carkin and groanin over hot can't be a-mended? Hence (1) Carker, sb. a peevish, troublesome child; (2) Carking, vbl. sb. pertinacious grumbling; (3) Carking, ppl. adj. anxious, careful, wearying, fretting, tiresome; (4) Carky, adj. annoyed, vexed. (1) w.Yks. A woman at Bradfield said to a troublesome child, ‘You are a little carker!’ (R.A.G.) (2) Lan.1 (3) Ayr. Does a' his weary carking cares beguile, Burns Cotter's Sat. Night (1785) st. 3. Kcb. List'ning to the chirp O' wand'ring mouse or moudy's carkin hoke, Davidson Seasons (1789) 62. n.Cy. Grose (1790). Cum. Away fra business carkin' cares, Richardson Talk (1876) 2nd S. 103. n.Yks.1; n.Yks.2 A carking sort of a body. (4) I.W.1 He zims plaguy carky about it; I.W.2
3. To take care of. s.Pem. Carking the baby (E.D.). [1. Esmoy, cark, care, thought, sorrow, heaviness, COTGR.; Carke, care, cura, cogitatio, Levins Manip. (1570).
4. I carke, I care, I take thought, Je chagrine, Palsgr. (1530); For hire love Y carke ant care, Lyr. Poems (c. 1400), ed. Wright, 54. AFr. karke, OFr. carche, a load, burden, charge (La Curne), the same as Fr. charge, a load (COTGR.).]

CARK, v. Sc. Lan. 1. To fret, complain; to be anxious. Sc. (A.W.) 2. To be careful or diligent. s.Lan.1