murk
/məːk
/noun [mass noun]
Darkness or thick mist that makes it difficult to see: my eyes were straining to see through the murk of the rainy evening...
- She needed her time alone, away from the gloom and murk of a sickroom.
- Burst cattails and grass line the edge; the water is thick, a deep green murk, a beautiful green cocktail.
- New York water is a special brew of ferocious currents, unforgiving temperatures, treacherous murk, and apocalyptic pollution.
adjective archaic or Scottish
Murky; gloomy.The sun peered down at her from the murk grey cloud rumbling their way down their road in the sky.
Origin
Old English mirce, of Germanic origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old Norse myrkr.
Rhymes
- Square Mile
- squareness
- square number
- square off
- square perch
- square piano
- square pole
- squarer
- square-rigged
- square-rigger
- square rod
- square root
- square sail
- square-shouldered
- square someone off
- square something away
- squaretail
- square the circle
- square-toed
- square up
- square wave
- squarish
- squark
- squash
- squashberry