Larkname詞源 1

• 1

  A surname transferred from the nickname, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks.

• 2

  A surname originating as a patronymic shortened from Larkin, a medieval diminutive of Laurence.

• 3

  A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.

• 4

  A female given name from English from the lark bird.

  • Mama had chosen the name Lark. Lark Browning Erhardt. Papa had wanted to call me Beverly Mary; Mary after the Blessed Virgin. Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk. Where she got the idea for Lark, I don't know, though one time when I asked, she said that larks flew high and had a happy song.
• 5

  A river in England, on the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

larknoun詞源 1/lɑːk/

• 1

  Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

• 2

  Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.

• 3

  One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.

• 4

  A jolly or peppy person.

  • Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson.

larkverb詞源 1/lɑːk/

• 1

  To catch larks (a type of bird).

  • to go larking

larknoun詞源 2/lɑːk/

• 1

  A frolic or romp, some fun.

  • ‘Ha! ha!’ laughed Master Bates, ‘what a lark that would be, wouldn’t it, Fagin? I say, how the Artful would bother ’em wouldn’t he?’
  • “Oh, dear, no,” said the young Englishman; “my cousin was coming over on some business, so I just came across, at an hour’s notice, for the lark.”
• 2

  A prank.

  • doolittle. […] [T]hanks to your silly joking, he leaves me a share in his Pre-digested Cheese Trust worth three thousand a year on condition that I lecture for his Wannafeller Moral Reform World League as often as they ask me up to six times a year. / higgins. The devil he does! Whew! [Brightening suddenly] What a lark!

larkverb詞源 2/lɑːk/

• 1

  To sport, engage in harmless pranking.

  • [T]hey laugh at us old boys,” thought old Pendennis. And he was not far wrong; the times and manners which he admired were pretty nearly gone—the gay young men “larked” him irreverently […]
  • […] the porter at the rail-road had seen a scuffle; or when he found it was likely to bring him in as a witness, then it might not have been a scuffle, only a little larking […]
• 2

  To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• Larak