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noun
1.
darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
adjective
2.
Archaic. dark; murky.
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Murk
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Also, mirk.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English mirke, myrke < Old Norse myrkr dark, darkness, replacing Old English myrce dark
before 900; Middle English mirke, myrke < Old Norse myrkr dark, darkness, replacing Old English myrce dark
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| murk or mirk1 (mɜːk) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | gloomy darkness |
| —adj | |
| 2. | an archaic variant of murky |
| [C13: probably from Old Norse myrkr darkness; compare Old English mirce dark] | |
| mirk or mirk1 | |
| —n | |
| —adj | |
| [C13: probably from Old Norse myrkr darkness; compare Old English mirce dark] | |
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Word Origin & History
murk
c.1200, from O.N. myrkr "darkness," from myrkr "dark," cognate with O.E. mierce "dark," from P.Gmc. *merkwjo-, with no known cognates outside Gmc. Murk Monday was long the name in Scotland for the great solar eclipse of March 29, 1652 (April 8, New Style).
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