curkite
Yola edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
curk (“to squat”) + -ite (“past participle suffix borrowed from Irish”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
curkite
Noun edit
curkite
- Tumbling or thrusting one another down; wrestling
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33