Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To be irritating, wearisome, or vexing to. synonym: annoy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Weariness; irksomeness.
- To weary; give pain to; annoy: now chiefly used with the impersonal it.
- To feel weary or annoyed.
- Weary; tired.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To weary; to give pain; to annoy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
irritate ;annoy ;bother
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb irritate or vex
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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There where a few instances of change that did kind of irk me though.
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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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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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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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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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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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