Carkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 carken (“to be anxious, worry”, intransitive), from 古期英語 *carcian ("to be sorrowful, worry"; found in becarcian (“to worry about, care for”)), a frequentative form of 古期英語 carian (“to care”), equivalent to care +‎ -k.

The 中期英語 carken, also charken (“to load (sth.); to bear (crops); to burden, harass”, transitive), from Old Northern French carquier (“to load, burden”), from Latin carricāre (“to load”), related to Old French chargier (“to load”), is a different word often confused with the above.

動詞

cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carking, simple past and past participle carked)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[Miscellany Fables.] Fab[le] CCCLXXXIII. A Spider and the Gout [Reflexion].”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 355:

     [W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?

2. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
   • 1831, Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible, Comment on 2 Timothy 2: 22:

     Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age.

   • 1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     [W]e shall see how in morbid melancholy this sense of the unreality of things may become a carking pain, and even lead to suicide.

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:

     Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

3. (archaic, intransitive) To labor anxiously.
   • 1849, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke's Song:

     Why for sluggards cark and moil?

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 cark, kark (“worry”), from 古期英語 carc (“sorrow, worry”).

名詞

cark (countable and uncountable, plural carks)

1. (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44:

     His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.

   • 1832, William Motherwell, They Come! The Merry Summer Months:

     Fling cark and care aside.

   • 1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven:

     Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.

2. (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.

派生した語

• → Welsh: carc

語源 3

From caulk.

動詞

cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carking, simple past and past participle carked)

1. Pronunciation spelling of caulk.

参考

• cark it

参照

• “cark”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “cark”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• RACK, rack