bark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːk/
ipa: /bɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: barque
Forms: form: barks
form: barking
form: barked
form: barked
form: barke
Etymology: From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare Old English beorc, bearce (“barking”)..
Senses: examples: text: The neighbour's dog is always barking.
text: The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.
synonyms: word: give tongue
word: latrate
glosses: To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
examples: text: And therefore they bark, and say the scripture maketh heretics.
ref: 1530, Tyndale, A Pathway into the Holy Scripture:
text: Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
examples: text: The sergeant barked an order.
text: Plainly he was prepared to bark out an interminable succession of charges against the Wanderer.
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 3:
text: Sudden anger rose in him. “What I’m looking for,” he barked, “is to be left in peace.” His voice trembled with a rage far bigger than her intrusion merited, the rage which shocked him whenever it coursed through his nervous system, like a flood.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:
text: While McCarthy prowled the touchline barking orders, his opposite number watched on motionless and expressionless and, with 25 minutes to go, decided to throw on Nicolas Anelka for Kalou.
ref: 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: To speak sharply.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: bark at print
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: bark at the wrong tree
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: barking
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: barking deer
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: barking dogs never bite
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: barking spider
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: barking squirrel
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: bark up the wrong tree
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: barky
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: bebark
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: buy a dog and bark oneself
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: dogs are barking
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: don't keep a dog and bark yourself
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: have a dog and bark oneself
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: keep a dog and bark oneself
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: outbark
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: park and bark
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: the dogs bark, but the caravan moves on
sense: Terms derived from bark verb
word: why keep a dog and bark yourself