kirked
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]kirked (not comparable)
- (Scotland) Having attended church for the first time after a wedding, birth, or other significant event.
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably a Northern dialectal form of kroked (“crooked”), or perhaps a miswritten form.[1] More at English crooked.
Adjective
[edit]kirked
- Turned upward, bent, crooked.
- c. 1370s. Unknown. The Romaunt of the Rose. 3135-8.
- Like sharp urchouns his here was growe,
His eyes rede as the fire-glow;
His nose frounced ful kirked stood,
He com criand as he were woor,- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1370s. Unknown. The Romaunt of the Rose. 3135-8.
Descendants
[edit]- English: kirked
References
[edit]- ^ Skeat, Walter (ed.), (1899). The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Vol 1 of 7. Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press. Page 434.