firkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• ferk

発音

• IPA^(key): /fɜː(ɹ)k/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)k

語源 1

From Middle English 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 (三人称単数 現在形 firks, 現在分詞 firking, 過去形および過去分詞形 firked)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To carry away or about; carry; move.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To drive away.
   • 1599, 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; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB 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.

名詞

firk (複数形 firks)

1. A stroke; lash.

語源 2

Probably an alteration of freak.

名詞

firk (複数形 firks)

1. (UK dialectal) A freak; trick; quirk.

派生語

• firkery