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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.

  • To weary; give pain to; annoy: now chiefly used with the impersonal it.
  • To feel weary or annoyed.
  • Weary; tired.
  • noun Weariness; irksomeness.

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

[Middle English irken, to weary, possibly from Old Norse yrkja, to work, make verses, harangue; see werg- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English irken ("to tire, grow weary"), from Old Norse yrkja ("to work"), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijanan (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Icelandic yrkja ("to compose"), Swedish yrka ("to urge, argue"), Old English wyrcan, wyrċean ("to work"). More at work.

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Examples

  • 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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  • Some of our findings will irk the deeply religious reader, while others will disconcert the deeply secular.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • That someone could irk him that much made me smile.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Do this, and your relationship with your sweetie is guaranteed to last far longer than the dangerous irk stage.

    The Lo-Down Lo Bosworth 2011

  • 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.

    Critique From HereNow Hal Duncan 2009

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