Wark
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- Meanings
- Wark is a Scots noun for a building, from the noun wark [wark, wA:rk] (work). The verb form is wirk [wIrk, wVrk]. The past tense is wrocht [wroxt].
- "Wark" is a common onomatopoeia for the sound a chicken or alpaca makes. This sound is also the most common sound a Chocobo makes in the Final Fantasy series of video games, although this trend is becoming obsolete as recent offerings have gone with the sound of "kweh".
- Wark (Alternate spelling Whark) the name of a large aquatic creature that appears like a large whale with bull horns and strange eyes in the computer game Riven. Considered a sacred animal to the D'ni, a culture found within the game.
Finally, it is also the sound Pen Pen, from Evangelion, makes.
- Places
- Wark on Tweed is a village in Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough, in the North of England, on the border with Scotland
- Wark on Tyne is a tranquil village in Tynedale, in the north of England, a few miles from Kielder reservoir.
- Wark River, a river in Luxembourg
- People
- Kirsty Wark, a Scottish journalist and BBC television presenter
- John Wark, a Scottish footballer
- Wark Richard, A computer security engineer working for Oracle Corporation.
- McKenzie Wark, an Australian-born writer and scholar.
- Radio Station
- WARK (AM), a talk radio station in Hagerstown, Maryland.
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