rark-up
v. phr.— «Occasionally, too, he gives his team-mates the message if they’re not performing. Shaw takes his “rark-ups” with a grain of salt and then gets on with the job, as he has done since 1990.» —“Shaw rethink has him back in contention” by Marc Hinton Sunday Star-Times (Auckland, New Zealand) Dec. 22, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
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