irk UK /ɜːk/US /ɝk/noun 1verb 1forms 4 noun1 •An annoyance.The trade-off between computation cost and precision results in tuning parameters […] being exposed to the user, a major irk to practitioners of data science. — 2022 verb1 •to irritate; annoy; botherIt irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it. formsirked · irking · irketh · irks
