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noun lɑːklɑrk 1A small ground-dwelling songbird with elongated hind claws and a song that is delivered on the wing, typically crested and with brown streaky plumage. Family Alaudidae: many genera and numerous species, e.g. the skylark and shorelark Example sentencesExamples - While I was out in the desert I watched a crested lark hovering about 100 feet off the ground singing its heart out.
- For example, several lineages typically excluded from the nine-primaried oscines do have nine functional primaries per wing (e.g. larks and wagtails).
- The crested larks have turned out to be one of the most common birds both in Kuwait and Iraq.
- In addition to communicating through song, larks will raise the crest of feathers in their head during agonistic and courtship displays.
- The songs of larks over the rustle of a meadow can at last be accepted as music.
- 1.1 Used in names of birds of other families that are similar to the lark, e.g. meadowlark.
Example sentencesExamples - And then, when I got there, still without seeing the meadow lark, there was a verdant patch of wild valerian basking in the sun and another corner with another patch of sunlight a little further on.
- The researchers believe that an increase in agricultural land, forest plantations and roads has fragmented the arid steppe habitat, preventing the Dupont's lark from sharing songs over greater distances.
- Horned larks appear to come into the Hamlet to feed on grit and seeds.
- Many, in times past, closely observed the movements of the bog lark, a bird you don't see that much nowadays.
- Out of sight a bird called, an early arrival, perhaps a horned lark.
- 1.2informal A person who habitually gets up early and feels energetic early in the day.
Often contrasted with owl
Phrases Get out of bed very early in the morning. I wanted to leave early, and was up with the lark Example sentencesExamples - But from now on I'm up with the lark and out muck-spreading or doing whatever's needed to keep the farm ticking over properly.
- When the children were small I'd be up with the lark; a cooked breakfast was on the table by 7.30 am.
- I was up with the lark, too excited at the prospect of seeing my team to sleep.
- Pet owners who get up with the lark to walk their dogs in a country park are fuming after penalty notices were slapped on their cars.
- You'd think, wouldn't you, that after yesterday's attack of the walking dozes I'd have been up with the lark this morning, bright as something that's really, really bright that time of the morning?
- The new parents I know got about four hours' sleep a night for a while and they are still up with the lark.
Origin Old English lāferce, lǣwerce; related to Dutch leeuwerik and German Lerche; of unknown ultimate origin. Old English laferce developed into Scottish and northern English laverock, and in the Middle Ages was contracted to lark, which become the standard name for this songbird. References to the early-morning singing of the lark date back to the 16th century. People often refer to an early riser as a lark, while a late-to-bed counterpart is an owl. The phrase up with the lark, ‘up very early in the morning’, also plays on the word ‘up’, since the lark sings on the wing while flying high above its nest. In to lark about or around, and in the sense ‘something done for fun’, lark may be a shortening of skylark, which was formerly used in the same way, or it may be from dialect lake ‘to play’, from a Scandinavian word.
Rhymes arc, ark, Bach, bark, barque, Braque, Clark, clerk, dark, embark, hark, impark, Iraq, Ladakh, Lamarck, macaque, marc, mark, marque, narc, nark, Newark, park, quark, sark, shark, snark, spark, stark, Vlach noun lɑːklɑrk informal 1Something done for fun, especially something mischievous or daring; an amusing adventure or escapade. I only went along for a lark Example sentencesExamples - She wasn't particularly bright, granted, but she was unassuming, fun, game for anything, fond of her grub and up for larks.
- Hordes of participants are expected to turn up for this fun event, from business teams to school teams, and sporting enthusiasts to those just taking part for a lark.
- In rarefied locations in the city, foreigners ride the rickshaw for a lark.
- Otherwise, it's decent for a lark when rented for a one-night spin.
- I'd had my lactate levels tested earlier in the year in Connecticut, going along with friends for a lark.
- Their story plays like some merry old folk tale, about a few lads off on a summertime lark that turned into a life-transforming adventure.
- He lived on the sub-continent until the age of five, when his boyish larks led his parents to send him to live with his grandparents in Devon.
- More to the point, might he have to resign if he blew up two trains for a lark?
- ‘We've seduced people into giving us $300 million for a lark,’ he says.
- The DVD comes in a huge box that's about twice the size of any DVD set you could name (overcompensating perhaps?) and it's got quite a few extras that might even entice prudes to buy it for a lark.
- Does the Australian public believe that these people undertake these treacherous journeys for a lark?
- At the now locked gates he meets twins Isabelle and Theo, who promptly invite him home to meet their parents for a lark.
- Never fear, we'll all be living until 112 shortly, and it's very likely that half those grey heads we observe are really teenagers who borrowed their grannie's wig for a lark.
- He soon became a cornucopia of trivia, and one day decided to have a shot at creating his own puzzle, just for a lark.
- Designing the baddies and weapons for the next big game - what a lark.
- Despite common opinion, Hika was not just using the opportunity afforded by his muskets to indulge in predatory larks; he had serious duties to perform for his people.
- In the national championships that year, she participated for a lark and won the silver in the rifle prone event.
- For those that got in, we drank away until the wee small hours and talked of old times, japes and larks.
- More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania.
- Apparently some of the stages will be near by (in Portmore), who knows, maybe I'll go and watch them for a lark.
Synonyms fun, amusement, amusing time, laugh, giggle, joke escapade, prank, trick, game, jape, skylark, practical joke, stunt informal leg-pull, put-on, gag, crack (larks), antics, high jinks, horseplay, fooling about/around, mischief, devilry, roguery, clowning, tomfoolery informal shenanigans British informal monkey tricks, monkey business North American informal didoes dated sport - 1.1British usually with modifier An activity regarded as foolish or a waste of time.
he's serious about this music lark Example sentencesExamples - This beauty lark is bloody hard work and I am profoundly grateful that most of the time I throw on slightly soiled clothes and schlep into the printroom makeupless.
- Anyone who engages in this utterly ridiculous weblog lark will have experienced those moments where you suddenly get an urge to put your latest words and thoughts online, despite the fact that you've had a few too many drinks.
- Perhaps he would have had to have asked them, ever so politely, of course, if this was their first offence, or if this terrorism lark was becoming a bit of a habit?
- Let's have it in live action - none of this animation lark.
- The consensus was that there had to be something in this astrology lark, and what did I know, I'm only an astronomy graduate.
- It's basically a working-class mindset, he said: ‘This showbiz lark can't last.’
- I sometimes think I'm not cut out for this whole technology lark, and today my faith in that belief has swung wildly from one extreme to the other.
- That jogging lark hasn't done him much good has it?
- Just as she was getting the hang of this monarchy lark, along comes another embarrassing chain of events to sink its teeth into the royal posterior.
- What is the appeal of this air guitar lark, I wondered?
- Call me dim but I would have thought that there wasn't too much to learning how to master this silence lark; it's not like studying Wittgenstein, even for people who wear trainers.
- I appear to be fairly gainfully self employed in the website design lark, at least for a bit, and while that's great it doesn't exactly make for good weblog fodder.
- Anyone passing through who wants to leave some remarks in the comments, please feel free. only if it's to tell me what a cack-handed job I'm making of this liveblogging lark.
- Hey, maybe I'm getting the hang of this interview lark.
- Monday morning was a tiny bit better, but this whole straightening lark isn't quite as easy as I thought it would be, different products also seem to have different results…
- The trouble with this sobriety lark, which I embarked upon at the start of the year, is that I find my critical facilities have been restored after some 30 years' suspension.
- This captaincy lark is all new to him, after all.
- Well, nobody said this superhero lark was going to be easy…
- This Dad lark is gonna take way more energy than I have.
- It all seems so simple from this perspective. I could get used to this evil genius lark.
Synonyms activity, undertaking, thing to do hobby, pastime, task informal business, caper
verb lɑːklɑrk [no object]lark about/aroundBritish informal Enjoy oneself by behaving in a playful and mischievous way. he's always joking and larking about in the office Example sentencesExamples - I look forward to the time when these kids will be larking around on their breaks with me as I, once again, play the big western idiot.
- He was always larking around in the dressing room and getting told off for messing around, so a move into comedy seemed natural enough.
- There was no clear boundary between the serious scientists on the one hand and those on the other who were merely larking about with new technology.
- And the rest of the lads lark about and laugh at a misshapen nude.
- Police are using new powers to seize motor bikes from noisy youths who disturb residents by larking around or speeding down streets.
- The 39-year-old, from the West End area of Ashton, said: ‘They were just lads larking about which ended with tragic consequences.’
- We strode towards the small plane, with the cameraman encouraging us to lark around.
- No, I didn't want to see the players larking around as though they didn't have a care in the world, but I don't think that's unreasonable.
- Snakes, it appeared, were his life whether larking around with tourists, performing rituals in village homes or selling them on to the chaps from Marrakesh.
- It could have been two lads larking about, but this is not a laugh and a joke.
- An office boy larking around in an unlit storage room almost lost his life when ‘grossly overloaded’ shelving collapsed on him.
- And by the time I was cracking eggs into the pan to go with a pile of toast, he was larking about, making sarcastic remarks about the Queen Mother and her 101st birthday, and it was clear no harm had been done.
- Her male co-host was telling jokes and larking about.
- Why, he asks, send bland ‘wish you were here’ postcards by snail mail when you can e-mail video clips of you and your mates larking around on the beach in just seconds.
- I didn't lark about or anything but failed to treat my duties with the seriousness required.
- A party of girls aged between nine and 11 had got on the bus; one had thrown her top off while larking around and the bus driver had stopped to let her pick it up.
- They merely hear me larking about for my own fun, not for theirs.
- We were larking around with a bout of on-street wrestling when I noticed a pile of rotten vegetables on a deserted stall.
- At tea-time and again the following morning, we're visited by members of the community, yarning with old ladies like Sheila, Amy and community leader Jessie and larking about in the river with a bevvy of energetic youngsters.
- She's already larked about in her undies for a camera, and she's also made vague allusions to wanting to dress up provocatively for the series.
Synonyms fool about/around, play tricks, indulge in horseplay, make mischief, monkey about/around, footle about/around, clown about/around, have fun, cavort, caper, romp, frolic, skylark informal mess about/around, play up, act the (giddy) goat British informal muck about/around, fanny about/around British vulgar slang bugger about/around, piss about/around, arse about/around archaic or humorous disport oneself
Derivatives noun informal adjective ˈlɑːkiˈlɑrki informal The larky, willed optimism of the book is revealed, too, by the action: the hero ‘goes through everything and undergoes nothing.’ Example sentencesExamples - A larky contest with a local bigwig who wants her removed from the street ends with neighbourliness all round.
- People always think of me as being quite larky.
- Babs, a larky drifter, hopes to satisfy her spiritual and sexual hunger by returning to her roots.
- It is rare that an actor as intense as this one, as thoughtful and involved in his work, is willing to be so larky about it.
Origin Early 19th century: perhaps from dialect lake 'play', from Old Norse leika, but compare with skylark in the same sense, which is recorded earlier. nounlɑrklärk 1A small ground-dwelling songbird, typically with brown streaky plumage, a crest, and elongated hind claws, and with a song that is delivered in flight. Family Alaudidae: many genera and numerous species, e.g., the skylark Example sentencesExamples - In addition to communicating through song, larks will raise the crest of feathers in their head during agonistic and courtship displays.
- The crested larks have turned out to be one of the most common birds both in Kuwait and Iraq.
- The songs of larks over the rustle of a meadow can at last be accepted as music.
- While I was out in the desert I watched a crested lark hovering about 100 feet off the ground singing its heart out.
- For example, several lineages typically excluded from the nine-primaried oscines do have nine functional primaries per wing (e.g. larks and wagtails).
- 1.1 Used in names of birds of other families similar to the lark, e.g., the meadowlark.
Example sentencesExamples - Horned larks appear to come into the Hamlet to feed on grit and seeds.
- Many, in times past, closely observed the movements of the bog lark, a bird you don't see that much nowadays.
- Out of sight a bird called, an early arrival, perhaps a horned lark.
- And then, when I got there, still without seeing the meadow lark, there was a verdant patch of wild valerian basking in the sun and another corner with another patch of sunlight a little further on.
- The researchers believe that an increase in agricultural land, forest plantations and roads has fragmented the arid steppe habitat, preventing the Dupont's lark from sharing songs over greater distances.
Origin Old English lāferce, lǣwerce; related to Dutch leeuwerik and German Lerche; of unknown ultimate origin. nounlɑrklärk informal 1Something done for fun, especially something mischievous or daring; an amusing adventure or escapade. I only went along for a lark Example sentencesExamples - Never fear, we'll all be living until 112 shortly, and it's very likely that half those grey heads we observe are really teenagers who borrowed their grannie's wig for a lark.
- ‘We've seduced people into giving us $300 million for a lark,’ he says.
- Does the Australian public believe that these people undertake these treacherous journeys for a lark?
- In rarefied locations in the city, foreigners ride the rickshaw for a lark.
- For those that got in, we drank away until the wee small hours and talked of old times, japes and larks.
- I'd had my lactate levels tested earlier in the year in Connecticut, going along with friends for a lark.
- In the national championships that year, she participated for a lark and won the silver in the rifle prone event.
- Otherwise, it's decent for a lark when rented for a one-night spin.
- The DVD comes in a huge box that's about twice the size of any DVD set you could name (overcompensating perhaps?) and it's got quite a few extras that might even entice prudes to buy it for a lark.
- She wasn't particularly bright, granted, but she was unassuming, fun, game for anything, fond of her grub and up for larks.
- Despite common opinion, Hika was not just using the opportunity afforded by his muskets to indulge in predatory larks; he had serious duties to perform for his people.
- Their story plays like some merry old folk tale, about a few lads off on a summertime lark that turned into a life-transforming adventure.
- He lived on the sub-continent until the age of five, when his boyish larks led his parents to send him to live with his grandparents in Devon.
- He soon became a cornucopia of trivia, and one day decided to have a shot at creating his own puzzle, just for a lark.
- More to the point, might he have to resign if he blew up two trains for a lark?
- At the now locked gates he meets twins Isabelle and Theo, who promptly invite him home to meet their parents for a lark.
- Hordes of participants are expected to turn up for this fun event, from business teams to school teams, and sporting enthusiasts to those just taking part for a lark.
- Apparently some of the stages will be near by (in Portmore), who knows, maybe I'll go and watch them for a lark.
- Designing the baddies and weapons for the next big game - what a lark.
- More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania.
Synonyms fun, amusement, amusing time, laugh, giggle, joke - 1.1British usually with modifier Used to suggest that an activity is foolish or a waste of time.
he's serious about this music lark Example sentencesExamples - Just as she was getting the hang of this monarchy lark, along comes another embarrassing chain of events to sink its teeth into the royal posterior.
- Let's have it in live action - none of this animation lark.
- This captaincy lark is all new to him, after all.
- I sometimes think I'm not cut out for this whole technology lark, and today my faith in that belief has swung wildly from one extreme to the other.
- This Dad lark is gonna take way more energy than I have.
- Anyone passing through who wants to leave some remarks in the comments, please feel free. only if it's to tell me what a cack-handed job I'm making of this liveblogging lark.
- Monday morning was a tiny bit better, but this whole straightening lark isn't quite as easy as I thought it would be, different products also seem to have different results…
- I appear to be fairly gainfully self employed in the website design lark, at least for a bit, and while that's great it doesn't exactly make for good weblog fodder.
- It all seems so simple from this perspective. I could get used to this evil genius lark.
- The consensus was that there had to be something in this astrology lark, and what did I know, I'm only an astronomy graduate.
- Well, nobody said this superhero lark was going to be easy…
- Perhaps he would have had to have asked them, ever so politely, of course, if this was their first offence, or if this terrorism lark was becoming a bit of a habit?
- This beauty lark is bloody hard work and I am profoundly grateful that most of the time I throw on slightly soiled clothes and schlep into the printroom makeupless.
- Hey, maybe I'm getting the hang of this interview lark.
- Anyone who engages in this utterly ridiculous weblog lark will have experienced those moments where you suddenly get an urge to put your latest words and thoughts online, despite the fact that you've had a few too many drinks.
- What is the appeal of this air guitar lark, I wondered?
- The trouble with this sobriety lark, which I embarked upon at the start of the year, is that I find my critical facilities have been restored after some 30 years' suspension.
- It's basically a working-class mindset, he said: ‘This showbiz lark can't last.’
- Call me dim but I would have thought that there wasn't too much to learning how to master this silence lark; it's not like studying Wittgenstein, even for people who wear trainers.
- That jogging lark hasn't done him much good has it?
Synonyms activity, undertaking, thing to do
verblɑrklärk [no object]British informal Enjoy oneself by behaving in a playful and mischievous way. he jumped the fence to go larking the rest of the day Example sentencesExamples - There was no clear boundary between the serious scientists on the one hand and those on the other who were merely larking about with new technology.
- And the rest of the lads lark about and laugh at a misshapen nude.
- At tea-time and again the following morning, we're visited by members of the community, yarning with old ladies like Sheila, Amy and community leader Jessie and larking about in the river with a bevvy of energetic youngsters.
- Her male co-host was telling jokes and larking about.
- He was always larking around in the dressing room and getting told off for messing around, so a move into comedy seemed natural enough.
- Police are using new powers to seize motor bikes from noisy youths who disturb residents by larking around or speeding down streets.
- The 39-year-old, from the West End area of Ashton, said: ‘They were just lads larking about which ended with tragic consequences.’
- I look forward to the time when these kids will be larking around on their breaks with me as I, once again, play the big western idiot.
- We strode towards the small plane, with the cameraman encouraging us to lark around.
- A party of girls aged between nine and 11 had got on the bus; one had thrown her top off while larking around and the bus driver had stopped to let her pick it up.
- We were larking around with a bout of on-street wrestling when I noticed a pile of rotten vegetables on a deserted stall.
- And by the time I was cracking eggs into the pan to go with a pile of toast, he was larking about, making sarcastic remarks about the Queen Mother and her 101st birthday, and it was clear no harm had been done.
- It could have been two lads larking about, but this is not a laugh and a joke.
- She's already larked about in her undies for a camera, and she's also made vague allusions to wanting to dress up provocatively for the series.
- They merely hear me larking about for my own fun, not for theirs.
- An office boy larking around in an unlit storage room almost lost his life when ‘grossly overloaded’ shelving collapsed on him.
- Why, he asks, send bland ‘wish you were here’ postcards by snail mail when you can e-mail video clips of you and your mates larking around on the beach in just seconds.
- No, I didn't want to see the players larking around as though they didn't have a care in the world, but I don't think that's unreasonable.
- I didn't lark about or anything but failed to treat my duties with the seriousness required.
- Snakes, it appeared, were his life whether larking around with tourists, performing rituals in village homes or selling them on to the chaps from Marrakesh.
Synonyms fool about, fool around, play tricks, indulge in horseplay, make mischief, monkey about, monkey around, footle about, footle around, clown about, clown around, have fun, cavort, caper, romp, frolic, skylark
Origin Early 19th century: perhaps from dialect lake ‘play’, from Old Norse leika, but compare with skylark in the same sense, which is recorded earlier. |