dirk
see also: Dirk
Pronunciation
Dirk
Pronunciation
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see also: Dirk
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɜːk/
dirk (plural dirks)
- A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discolored to the hilt with blood.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- (Midwest US, dated, slang) A penis; dork.
- May 1964, Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2
- The word dick itself serves as model for two variants which are probably Midwestern, dirk and dork, also meaning "penis"...
- May 1964, Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2
- (Midwest US, dated, slang) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.
- May 1964, Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2
- ...on at least one Midwestern campus a dirk may be an "oddball" student, while a prick (more common) is of course an offensive one.
- May 1964, Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2
dirk (dirks, present participle dirking; past and past participle dirked)
- To stab with a dirk.
- (obsolete) To darken.
- c. 1378, Geoffrey Chaucer (translator), Boece (Chaucer), Book I:
- The beaute the whiche clothes a derknesse of a forleten and despised elde hadde duskid and dirked, as it is wont to dirken besmokede ymages
- c. 1378, Geoffrey Chaucer (translator), Boece (Chaucer), Book I:
Dirk
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɜːk/, /dɪək/
- A male given name.
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