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rawk

rawk noun: a thick fog. Also the pronunciation spelling of rock.

Noun (1)

rawk (plural rawks)

  1. (Yorkshire) A thick fog.
    • The rawk o' the hills, and the mist o' the mountains, / Like the reek o'a pot, and the smoke of a kiln, / Draws further off still, while the round sun is counting / His pulses o' light o' the morning so still.a. 1854, Clare, manuscript poems, quoted in 1854, Anne Elizabeth Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases, page 163

Noun (2)

rawk (plural rawks)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, possibly) A mark.
    • Rawks o' muck dahn't side on his faace.1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words
    • 'At drew all them rawks.1896 June 27, Yorkshire Weekly Post

Also used as

rawk is also the pronunciation spelling of rock.

Forms of rawk

Noun
pluralrawks
Verb
third-person singular presentrawks
present participlerawking
past participlerawked
pastrawked

Origin of rawk

Related to roke (“mist; smoke”), Swedish rök (“smoke”). Compare raggy (“foggy”).

Compare roke (“defect in steel”).

Words formed from rawk

Questions about rawk

What does rawk mean?
Rawk means a thick fog.
What part of speech is rawk?
Rawk is a noun.
What is the plural of rawk?
The plural of rawk is rawks.

Words near rawk in the dictionary

  1. Rawis
  2. rawish
  3. rawism
  4. rawist
  5. rawists
  6. rawk
  7. rawked
  8. rawker
  9. rawkers
  10. rawking
  11. rawks

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