Defining Quarks

• quark (or -ork) n. (Phys.) one of several (originally three) hypothetical components of elementary particles.

                                 -OED
  

• "Three quarks for Muster Mark."

                                 -Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce
  

• Quark (kvark), m. (-e(s)) curd, curds; (fig.) trifle, nothing, rubbish, trash.

                                 -Cassell's German-English Dictionary