merk

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

merk (plural merks)

1. Obsolete spelling of mark
2. (Scotland) Alternative form of mark

merk (third-person singular simple present merks, present participle merking, simple past and past participle merked)

1. Alternative spelling of murk (“to murder”)
   • 2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 31 May 2018:

     In truth, there are Easter eggs planted in just about every frame of Ready Player One, which never misses an opportunity to insert a recognizable character (hey, is that Jason Voorhees getting merked during the film’s first-person shooter level?) or toss a sop to the faithful.

2. (African American Vernacular, slang) to run
   • 2014 "How Poor Young Black Men Run from the Police", Alice Goffman, pub. Vice.com May 8, 2014: "If you hear the law coming, you merk on [run away from] them niggas."

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• Rhymes: -ɛrk

merk n (plural merken, diminutive merkje n)

1. mark
2. logo
3. brand

• brandmerk
• handelsmerk
• kenmerk
• oogmerk

• merken

See the etymology of the main entry.

merk

1. first-person singular present indicative of merken
2. imperative of merken

• kerm

merk

1. imperative of merke

merk c (plural merken, diminutive merkje)

1. market

• “merk (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011