to irritate; annoy; bother
It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.
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.
A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Irwell in Manchester city centre.
Inherited from Middle English irken (“to tire, grow weary”), from Old Norse yrkja (“to work”), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Ice...
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