firkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /fɜː(ɹ)k/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)k

語源 1

From 中期英語 firken, ferken (“to proceed, hasten”), from 古期英語 fercian (“to bring, assist, support, carry, conduct, convey, proceed”), from Proto-West Germanic *farikōn, frequentative of Proto-Germanic *faraną (“to travel, fare”). Akin to 古期英語 faran (“to fare, go”), English fare; if so, equivalent to fare +‎ -k. Cognate with Old High German fuora (“benefit, sustenance, support”), Swabian fergen, ferken (“to bring, dispatch”).

動詞

firk (third-person singular simple present firks, present participle firking, simple past and past participle firked)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To carry away or about; carry; move.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To drive away.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; raise up.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To move quickly; go off or fly out suddenly; turn out.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     A wench is a rare bait, with which a man / No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad.

   • 1616 October or November (first performance), Ben Jonson, The Diuell is an Asse: A Comedie […], London: […] I. B. for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act V, scene vj, page 164:

     Caſt care at thy poſternes; and firke i' thy fetters; / They are ornaments, Baby, haue graced thy betters: […]

     In the sense of moving or dancing while in fetters.

名詞

firk (plural firks)

1. A stroke; lash.

語源 2

Probably an alteration of freak.

名詞

firk (plural firks)

1. (UK obsolete, dialectal) A freak; trick; quirk.
   • 1608, Lording Barry, Ram Alley:

     firk o' law

   • 1634, William Davenant, The Wits:

     a firk of piety

派生語

• firkery

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