irk

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irk/ɜːk $ ɜːrk/ verb [TRANSITIVE]
[date : 1300-1400; Origin : Perhaps from Old Norse yrkja 'to work']
if something irks you, it makes you feel annoyed SYN annoy

verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The increased traffic noise has irked many residents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And that irks them even more.
▪ He was irked, I could tell.
▪ In a move that particularly irked Hartlepool supporters, Little also bought Andy Toman.
▪ In a way, this irked him and always had done.
▪ It irks me that the Five-Hundred-Mile-Race grandstands are basically inaccessible-a group of us are working diligently to correct that.
▪ This reversal of roles, she had sensed, would irk him.
▪ Yes, the softness I am looking at somehow irks me.