Past tense of firk; drove out, expelled, or hastily moved something or someone.
Past tense form of 'firk' created with '-ed' suffix (from Old English '-ede'). The archaic verb conjugated in simple past tense.
Finding 'firked' in old texts is like discovering a linguistic fossil—these archaic past tenses remind us that English had richer vocabulary for sudden, forceful action, and some words just sound more satisfying than their modern equivalents.
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