wark

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k

From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”), from Proto-Germanic *warkiz (“pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *werg- (“to suffer”), *werǵ- (“to make”), *wreǵ- (“to work, act”). Cognate with Swedish värk (“ache, pain”), Icelandic verkur (“pain”). Related to work.

wark (plural warks)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Pain; ache.

• bellywark
• headwark

From Middle English werken, warchen, from Old English wærcan (“to be in pain”). Cognate with Swedish värka (“to ache, pain”), Icelandic verkja (“to pain”). See above.

wark (third-person singular simple present warks, present participle warking, simple past and past participle warked)

1. (intransitive) To be in pain; ache.

See work.

wark (plural warks)

1. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A building.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

• rawk

wark m

1. business
2. profession

wark

1. water

• Robert Leech, Vocabularies of seven languages, spoken in the countries west of the Indus; also Epitome of the Grammars of the Brahuiky, Balochky & Panjabi Languages (1843)

wark (plural warks)

1. work