verb · transitive · rare

filk

filk · filks · filked · filking

To perform filk musicTo perform filk music.

/fɪlk/

Meaning

3 senses

(intransitive)To perform filk music.
(intransitive)To participate in a filk circle, including singing along.
(transitive)To write a parody of (a song).

Origin

Originally "filk music" was a typo for "folk music" in a never-published essay on the infl

Originally "filk music" was a typo for "folk music" in a never-published essay on the influence of Science Fiction and Fantasy on folk music. Its first known deliberate use was by Karen Kruse Anderson in Die Zeitschrift für Vollständigen Unsinn (The Journal for Utter Nonsense) #774 (June 1953), for a song written by science-fiction author Poul Anderson.

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Forms

filks, filking, filked, filked

Base form	filk · to filk
3rd person singular	filks
Present participle	filking
Past simple	filked
Past participle	filked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	filk
he, she, it	filks

Past simpleLesson

all persons

filked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have filked
he, she, it	has filked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will filk

Word family

1 related words

Relatedfolk music

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle