shirk, ilk, ranter

Google and ilk can't shirk responsibility for ranters
Sydney Morning Herald
The blogspot.com site which he uses is operated by Google, based in California and registered in Delaware. It requires a Google account and gmail address. One person posted an online comment about this yesterday, saying they had tried to report the ...


ilk
(ĭlk)
n.
Type or kind: can't trust people of that ilk.

pron. Scots
The same. Used following a name to indicate that the one named resides in an area bearing the same name: Duncan of that ilk.

[Middle English ilke, same, from Old English ilca.]

WORD HISTORY When one uses ilk, as in the phrase men of his ilk, one is using a word with an ancient pedigree even though the sense of ilk, "kind or sort," is actually quite recent, having been first recorded at the end of the 18th century. This sense grew out of an older use of ilk in the phrase of that ilk, meaning "of the same place, territorial designation, or name." This phrase was used chiefly in names of landed families, Guthrie of that ilk meaning "Guthrie of Guthrie." "Same" is the fundamental meaning of the word. The ancestors of ilk, Old English ilca and Middle English ilke, were common words, usually appearing with such words as the or that, but the word hardly survived the Middle Ages in those uses.

shirk[shirk]

• 発音記号[ʃə'ːrk]
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[動](他)〈仕事・責任などを〉のがれる, 避ける, 回避する；…をなまける((doing)).

━━(自)仕事をずるける, 責任をのがれる.

━━[名]（またshírk・er）仕事［義務］を忌避する人；なまけ者, 横着者.

rant[rant]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[rǽnt]
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[動](自)大言壮語する, 大声を張り上げる, わめく；激しくしかる；大声で説教をする

rant and rave
どなりちらす.

━━(他)…を大声で言う((out)).

━━[名]

1 [U]大言壮語, 誇張した話；長広舌.

2 大げさな言葉.

rant・er

[名]わめく人.

rant・ing・ly

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