"shalk" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ʃɔːk/ Forms: shalks [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːk Etymology: From Middle English schalk, scalk, from Old English scealc (“servant; man, soldier, sailor”), from Proto-Germanic *skalkaz (“servant, knight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cleave, separate, part, divide”). Cognate with German Schalk (“joker”), Old Norse skálkr (“servant, rogue”) ( > Danish and Swedish skalk), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐍃 (skalks, “servant”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|schalk}} Middle English schalk, {{m|enm|scalk}} scalk, {{inh|en|ang|scealc||servant; man, soldier, sailor}} Old English scealc (“servant; man, soldier, sailor”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*skalkaz||servant, knight}} Proto-Germanic *skalkaz (“servant, knight”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)kelH-||to cleave, separate, part, divide}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cleave, separate, part, divide”), {{cog|de|Schalk||joker}} German Schalk (“joker”), {{cog|non|skálkr||servant, rogue}} Old Norse skálkr (“servant, rogue”), {{cog|da|-}} Danish, {{cog|sv|skalk}} Swedish skalk, {{cog|got|𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐍃||servant}} Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐍃 (skalks, “servant”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} shalk (plural shalks)
  1. (obsolete) A servant. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-shalk-en-noun-G1wtIib5
  2. (UK dialectal) A man; fellow. Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-shalk-en-noun-qQ-jORd1 Categories (other): British English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: schalk, schak, schaik, shack

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      "ipa": "/ʃɔːk/"
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    {
      "word": "schalk"
    },
    {
      "word": "schak"
    },
    {
      "word": "schaik"
    },
    {
      "word": "shack"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shalk"
}

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