Pronunciations (4)
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/ɜːk/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ɝk/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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ɜːk
Pronunciation notes
- GB
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ɝk
Pronunciation notes
- US
Verb
to irritate; annoy; bother
Usage- Transitive
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It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.
Let no man pray to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, for who shall trouble Māna with mortal woes or irk him with the sorrows of all the houses of Earth?
Noun
An annoyance.
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The trade-off between computation cost and precision results in tuning parameters […] being exposed to the user, a major irk to practitioners of data science.
Verb
irritate or vex
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- Broader terms
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It galls me that we lost the suit