wirk • work verb (past tense wrowt)- work
- be employed (at) ☞ “He wrowt at Gorn a whiley”
- (of ale) ferment
- tae wirk a sock to knit a sock
- tae work the creels to fish lobsters
- tae wirk a wark
- to be busy about something ☞ “Whit a wark he’s wirkan doon there at the corner” “He was building a house”
- to make mischief ☞ “Whit a wark that young fulloos were wirkan at Edwin’s last night” (they were playing Hallowe’en pranks)
- to behave in an odd way ☞ “Every time I stert me car hid splutters an wirks a wark”
- wirkeen working ☞ tae go fae wirkeen (of machinery etc
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