Meaning of Lark | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
2. A surname transferred from the nickname, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks.
3. A frolic or romp, some fun.
4. Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
5. A surname originating as a patronymic shortened from Larkin, a medieval diminutive of Laurence.
6. A prank.
7. One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
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8. A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
9. A jolly or peppy person.
10. A female given name from English from the lark bird.
11. A river in England, on the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

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Examples

“Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson.”

“‘Ha! ha!’ laughed Master Bates, ‘what a lark that would be, wouldn’t it, Fagin? I say, how the Artful would bother ’em wouldn’t he?’”

““Oh, dear, no,” said the young Englishman; “my cousin was coming over on some business, so I just came across, at an hour’s notice, for the lark.””

“Thanks partly to Tom Wolfe’s raised-eyebrow account, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” that bohemian lark has been retrospectively hailed as the flash point of the emerging hippie counterculture.”

“What began as a lark has grown into something very, very big, inflating the company’s ambitions.”

“doolittle. […] [T]hanks to your silly joking, he leaves me a share in his Pre-digested Cheese Trust worth three thousand a year on condition that I lecture for his Wannafeller Moral Reform World League as often as they ask me up to six times a year. / higgins. The devil he does! Whew! [Brightening suddenly] What a lark!”

“Mama had chosen the name Lark. Lark Browning Erhardt. Papa had wanted to call me Beverly Mary; Mary after the Blessed Virgin. Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk. Where she got the idea for Lark, I don't know, though one time when I asked, she said that larks flew high and had a happy song.”

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