Meaning

4 senses

  1. A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.

    кинжа́лkinžál, диркdirk

    a relatively long dagger with a straight blade

  2. A ceremonial dagger worn by naval or air force officers in some nations' militaries; formerly, a fighting dagger used by sailors as a boarding weapon.

    ко́ртикkórtik

    ко́ртикkórtyk

  3. (Midwestern US, dated, slang)A penis.

  4. (Midwestern US, dated, slang)A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.

    Near-synonym: dork

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Drunk Dirk thinks your fat pigeons are dancing.

    deDer betrunkene Dirk denkt, dass deine dicken Tauben tanzen. — Tom9358

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Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a ceremonial dagger worn by naval officers; formerly, a boarding weapon used by sailors:
Русский
By meaning 2
a long Scottish dagger with a straight blade:
a ceremonial dagger worn by naval officers; formerly, a boarding weapon used by sailors:

Origin

Unlikely not to have come from the same murky origins as dork, despite sound variation a

Unlikely not to have come from the same murky origins as dork, despite sound variation among dick-dirk-dork. Influence from der seems plausibly intermixed.

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Forms

plural: dirks
Singulardirk
Pluraldirks

regular

Synonyms

199 synonyms
bananaA1birdA1cucumberB1dockB2downA1fishA1gunA2hammerB1itA2jobA1jointB2machineA1meatA1memberA2

Word family

1 related words
Deriveddirk knife

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
dirgedirigibledirtB1dirtyA1
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