rark
/rɑːk
/verb [with object] (usually rark someone up) NZ informal
Annoy or irritate (someone): mentioning it would only rark people up again...
- We don't want to rark anyone up here.
- Once they have rarked them up, they will just desert them.
- If he turns up a bit earlier today and rarks us up in his own unique style, it could be a ripper.
Origin
1990s: origin unknown.
- top-shelf
- top shell
- topside
- Top-Sider
- top-slice
- top-slicing
- topsoil
- top someone up
- top something off
- top something out
- top something up
- topspin
- topspinner
- topstitch
- topsy-turvily
- topsy-turviness
- topsy-turvy
- topsy-turvydom
- top table
- top ten (or twenty etc.)
- top-tier
- top tip
- top to tail
- top-up
- to put it mildly (or putting it mildly)