Added 9 October 2026
kirk
/kɜːk/ noun
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about kirk at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- A church.
verb
- to experience intense neck pain and/or incapacitated by it
- to hit someone in the neck (stings, hickeys etc)
Origin
Inherited from Northern Middle English kirke, borrowed from Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English ċiriċe, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, borrowed from Koine Greek κῡρῐᾰκόν (kūrĭăkón), a nominalization of κῡριακός (kūriakós), or from Ancient Greek -ον (-on). Doublet of church.
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