kirked

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots kirkit.

Adjective

kirked (not comparable)

  1. (Scotland) Having attended church for the first time after a wedding, birth, or other significant event.

Middle English

Etymology

Probably a Northern dialectal form of kroked (“crooked”), or perhaps a miswritten form.[1] More at English crooked.

Adjective

kirked

  1. 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,
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Descendants

  • English: kirked

References

  1. ^ Skeat, Walter (ed.), (1899). The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Vol 1 of 7. Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press. Page 434.
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