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3 lettersPronunciation /ɜːk/Part of speech verbSorted ikrStarts with IEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. irritate or vex

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

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

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