irk

irk

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Iraqw.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Iraqw terms

Inherited from Middle English irken (“to tire, grow weary”), from Old Norse yrkja (“to work”), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Icelandic yrkja (“to compose”), Swedish yrka (“to urge, argue”), Old English wyrċan (“to work”). Doublet of work.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɜːk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɝk/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

irk (third-person singular simple present irks, present participle irking, simple past and past participle irked)

1. (transitive) to irritate; annoy; bother

   It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.

   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:

     Let no man pray to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, for who shall trouble Māna with mortal woes or irk him with the sorrows of all the houses of Earth?

• See also Thesaurus:annoy

irk (plural irks)

1. An annoyance.
   • 2022, Philipp Hennig, ‎Michael A. Osborne, ‎Hans P. Kersting, Probabilistic Numerics (page 13)

     The trade-off between computation cost and precision results in tuning parameters […] being exposed to the user, a major irk to practitioners of data science.

• KRI, Rik, ikr, IKR, rik, k'ri, Kri, kir

irk

1. plural of ark