"glark" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-glark.ogg Forms: glarks [present, singular, third-person], glarking [participle, present], glarked [participle, past], glarked [past]
Etymology: Slight variation of glork in the constructed sentence "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context" by David Moser. It is conjectured that hacker usage mutated the verb to glark because glork was already an established jargon term. Head templates: {{en-verb}} glark (third-person singular simple present glarks, present participle glarking, simple past and past participle glarked)
  1. (slang, transitive) To guess (the meaning of an unfamiliar word) based on hearing its use in context. Tags: slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-glark-en-verb-0HXS4O6R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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