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irk
Inherited from Middle English irken (“to tire, grow weary”), from Old Norse yrkja (“to work”), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Icelandic yrkja (“to compose”), Swedish yrka (“to urge, argue”), Old English wyrċan (“to work”). Doublet of work.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɜːk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɝk/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
irk (third-person singular simple present irks, present participle irking, simple past and past participle irked)
- (transitive) to irritate; annoy; bother
It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.
See also Thesaurus:annoy
to irritate; annoy; bother
- Bulgarian: безпокоя (bg) (bezpokoja), смущавам (bg) (smuštavam), досаждам (bg) (dosaždam)
- Cornish: veksya
- Czech: rozčilovat (cs) impf, štvát (cs) impf, dopalovat impf
- Finnish: ärsyttää (fi)
- French: agacer (fr), irriter (fr)
- German: ärgern (de)
- Hungarian: bosszant (hu)
- Italian: infastidire (it), irritare (it), seccare (it)
- Latin: piget, taedet
- Māori: hakirara, whakahōhā, whakakūrakuraku, rangirangi, whakatōwenewene
- Norwegian: irritere (no), plage (no)
- Polish: drażnić (pl)
- Portuguese: aborrecer (pt)
- Russian: раздража́ть (ru) (razdražátʹ)
- Spanish: fastidiar (es), molestar (es), irritar (es)
irk (plural irks)
- An annoyance.
- 2022, Philipp Hennig, Michael A. Osborne, Hans P. Kersting, Probabilistic Numerics, page 13:
The trade-off between computation cost and precision results in tuning parameters […] being exposed to the user, a major irk to practitioners of data science.
- 2022, Philipp Hennig, Michael A. Osborne, Hans P. Kersting, Probabilistic Numerics, page 13:
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