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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Partial or total darkness; gloom.
  2. adj. Archaic Partially or totally dark; gloomy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Dark; obscure; gloomy.
  2. n. Gloom; darkness.
  3. To darken.
  4. n. Refuse or husks of fruit after the juice has been expressed; marc.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Dark, murky
  2. n. Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
  3. v. To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Dark; murky.
  2. n. Archaic Darkness; mirk.
  3. n. The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make dark, dim, or gloomy
  2. n. an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

Etymologies

  1. Middle English mirke, from Old Norse myrkr or Old English mirce. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby Ah. So you were proud to be a Murkin? Apr 24, 2009

  • sionnach Yes, as a matter of fact. Every Wednesday they served delicious Chicken Murk Nuggets in the company cafeteria for a mere pittance.

    And once they sent me to Spain for a week to randomise tomato plants in a trial of an insecticide against the dreaded leafminer pest. So you could say that I was paid to figure out the most efficient way to exterminate the little bug(ger)s. Apr 24, 2009

  • bilby Were there purks for wurking at Murk? Apr 24, 2009

  • sionnach I used to wurk at Murk. Apr 24, 2009

  • brtom " Along an infinite invisible tight-rope taut from zenith to nadir the End of the World, a two headed octopus in gillies kilts, busby and tartan filibegs, whirls through the murk, head over heels, in the fob of the Three Lugs of Man." Joyce, Ulysses, 15 Dec 31, 2007

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‘murk’ has been looked up 1910 times, added to 17 lists, commented on 5 times, and has a Scrabble score of 10.