sparken
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kən
Verb
sparken (third-person singular simple present sparkens, present participle sparkening, simple past and past participle sparkened)
- (transitive, intransitive) To spark or ignite in sparks
- 1929, Percy MacKaye, Weathergoose-woo!, page 171:
- […] and her princess-feather flipped purty in the wind; and thar a siller wishbone jewelled betwixt her breastes; and her pink-red-pepper wristicuffs sparkened; […]
- 2008, Ken Muller, RANDOM FITZ of KINDNESS, page 28:
- And milady said, “I am but an afterthought. Nothing more. I am but an instrument. Nothng more. I am but a sparkened catalyst. Nothing more”
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English spearcian; equivalent to spark + -en (infinitival suffix).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsparkən/
Conjugation
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
References
- “sparken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Old English spearcan; equivalent to sparke + -en (plural suffix).
Swedish
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