kirked

English

Borrowed from Scots kirkit.

kirked (not comparable)

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

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

kirked

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

单词	kirked
释义	kirked English Etymology Borrowed from Scots kirkit. Adjective kirked (not comparable) (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 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, Descendants English: kirked References 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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