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wark

(wɑːrk; wɔːrk)
n
a Scot word for work
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"Ye've not been used to sarvant's wark, I see by your hands," she remarked.
it's ill wark deceivin' Sir Paitrick, if that's what ye've dune.
"Ye'll no forget the witnessing as weel as the driving, when ye pay me for my day's wark!" He laughed with guttural gravity; and, leaving his atmosphere behind him, stalked out of the room.
All warks togither for gooid to them as is chozzen, and piked out fro' th' rubbidge!
Inside the first three months of his career at his new club in fact, as Wark and Liverpool won the First Division crown.
If walls really do have ears, the 2ft-thick exposed stone in The King's Wark has heard a tale or two over the years.
THE scaffolding is off, the paintwork completed and the original plaque is back on the railings to mark the final completion of works to repair Wark bridge.
"Former councillor Edward Heslop and the Monday Men, sometimes known as the 'Wark bridge warriors', decided that they were not happy with the state of the bridge and they would campaign to stop it being closed, otherwise it would have become a pedestrian/cyclists bridge, cutting the Upper North Tyne community in half, having a massive effect on trade, farmers, and the vibrancy of the villages.
FORMER Boro midfielder John Wark believes the intensity of tonight's Scotland versus England match will be no different from when he used to "kick lumps" out of Ipswich team-mate Mick Mills - then share a joke about it together on holiday.
JOHN WARK believes the intensity of the Scotland versus England match tomorrow night will be no different from when he used to "kick lumps" out of Ipswich team-mate Mick Mills - then share a joke about it.
Glasgow-born Wark - who won a total of 29 Scotland caps and played at the 1982 World Cup in Spain - is confident Scotland can see through what has been a promising start to their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign, having beaten the Republic of Ireland in Glasgow on Friday.
Wark, McKenzie, Telesthesia: Communication, Culture & Class, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2012, ISBN 9 7807 4565 3990, viii+241 pp., A$32.95.