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Word entry · 4 letters

lark

Best crossword clue

"Field songbird"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /lɑːk/Part of speech noun, verbSorted aklrStarts with LEnds with K2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. any carefree episode

Word origin

From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwarikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ, *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.

Used in a sentence

  • Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson.
  • to go larking
  • ‘Ha! ha!’ laughed Master Bates, ‘what a lark that would be, wouldn’t it, Fagin? I say, how the Artful would bother ’em wouldn’t he?’

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Field songbird4 letters
02Songbird in a field4 letters

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