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glark

glark verb: to guess (the meaning of an unfamiliar word) based on hearing its use in context.

Verb

glark (third-person singular simple present glarks, present participle glarking, simple past and past participle glarked)

  1. (slang, transitive) To guess (the meaning of an unfamiliar word) based on hearing its use in context.

Forms of glark

third-person singular presentglarks
present participleglarking
past participleglarked
pastglarked

Origin of glark

Slight variation of glork in the constructed sentence "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context" by David Moser. It is conjectured that hacker usage mutated the verb to glark because glork was already an established jargon term.

Questions about glark

What does glark mean?
Glark means to guess (the meaning of an unfamiliar word) based on hearing its use in context.
What part of speech is glark?
Glark is a verb.
What is the past tense of glark?
The past tense of glark is glarked.

Words near glark in the dictionary

  1. glaring
  2. glaring daggers
  3. glaringly
  4. glaringness
  5. glarings
  6. glark
  7. glarked
  8. glarking
  9. glarks
  10. glarney
  11. glarneys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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