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Synonyms
abrasive, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, chafing, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, irksome, irritating, maddening, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pesty, plaguey (also plaguy), rankling, rebarbative, riling, vexatious, vexing
circa 1565, in the meaning defined above
Middle English, from carken, literally, to load, burden, from Anglo-French carker, from Late Latin carricare
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