IRK, IRKSOME, IRKSOMENESS
ADJECTIVES
► ELENGE very long, tedious, weary, irksome → c897 obs.
► FASHIOUS troublesome, annoying, irksome → 1536 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FASHOUS troublesome, annoying, irksome; of a task: tricky, ticklish → 1731 Sc.
► IMPORTUNE persistent or pressing in solicitation; pertinacious; irksome through persistency of request → 1447
► SWINKFUL full of toil or trouble; disastrous; troublesome, irksome; painful, distressing → a1000 obs.
► TOR difficult, hard, toilsome; irksome, tedious → c1200 obs.
► YERKSOME annoying, irksome → 1883 Sc.
NOUNS
► MURDER a very irksome experience → 1924 sl.
► PAINFULNESS the quality of causing trouble or labour; difficulty, troublesomeness, irksomeness → 1526 arch.
VERBS
► GET ONE’S ANGORA to irk, to annoy, to anger or exasperate someone; to discomfit or rattle one → 1915 Amer. sl.
► NIRK to irk, to annoy, to harass, to weary → 1861 Eng. dial.
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