carking
cark·ing
adjective \ˈkär-kiŋ\Definition of CARKING
Examples of CARKING
- <sometimes she's overwhelmed by the carking anxieties of being a single parent>
Origin of CARKING
Middle English, from carken, literally, to load, burden, from Anglo-French carker, from Late Latin carricare
First Known Use: circa 1565
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- abrasive, aggravating, bothersome, annoying, chafing, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, irksome, irritating, maddening, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pesty, plaguey (also plaguy), rankling, rebarbative, riling, vexatious, vexing
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