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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
1L2A3R4K

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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