Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To be irritating, wearisome, or vexing to. See Synonyms at annoy.
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- v. to irritate; annoy; bother
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To weary; to give pain; to annoy.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To weary; give pain to; annoy: now chiefly used with the impersonal it.
- To feel weary or annoyed.
- Weary; tired.
- n. Weariness; irksomeness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. irritate or vex
Etymologies
Examples
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Sandara used to kind of irk me because she used to sing In or Out which in my opinion is such an atrocious song that gets stuck in your head once you hear it.
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There where a few instances of change that did kind of irk me though.
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He said it might even "irk" other countries and could complicate movement of people between Africa and
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Doesn't this cry baby routine 'irk' the fems? duckman (My Grandma Isn't Shovel Ready!)
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Some of our findings will irk the deeply religious reader, while others will disconcert the deeply secular.
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But that wording in the review reads as free-floating and nebulous, an undercurrent of irk that attaches to the author and the book rather than articulating itself directly at its real target: the mechanisms of commercial publishing.
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That someone could irk him that much made me smile.
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Do this, and your relationship with your sweetie is guaranteed to last far longer than the dangerous irk stage.
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I support equal rights, but All the folks that expect for the President to have solved their particular problems in 8 months time really irk me.
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I know how people who wear knit winter caps indoors irk you something fierce.
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