murk
adjEtymology
From Middle English merke, mirke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“dark, gloomy, evil”) and Old Norse myrkr (“dark, murky”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”). Cognate Danish mørk (“dark”), Norwegian mørk (“dark”), Swedish mörk (“dark”), Icelandic myrkur (“dark”), as also Albanian murg (“dark”), Proto-Slavic *morkъ (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), murzinas (“dirty, spoiled”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”).
Definitions
Dark, murky.
- He cannot see through the mantle murk.
Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
- […]in murk and occidental damp
- O great star disappear’d—O the black murk that hides the star!
- And yet, tiny sparks of hope gleam in this dim existence, like pearls in the murk.
To make murky or be murky
To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
- Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
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To kill or eliminate.
- That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
- that 1 fag in there got my pistol confiscated, I got plenty of other guns but I want to murk that cocksucker
To beat up
To beat up; to injure.
- cause we be murkin from the boogie And shittin on the crowds 'cause they jive fakin woody.
- He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.
To eliminate
To eliminate; to defeat overwhelmingly.
- POV: You're about to get murked by two of Philly's finest on the court. | @myteamtoyota
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for murk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA