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name
A male given name from German or Dutch, equivalent to English Derek.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname transferred from the given name.
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noun
A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Midwestern-US, dated, slang
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Synonyms: dork, anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, corey, crank, cucumber, custard launcher, D, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, dingaling, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, Donkey Kong, doodle, down, fire hose, fuckpole, gherkin, hairy canary, hammer, hog, hot dog, hot rod, hoo-hoo, hooter, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, job, jock, johnson, John Thomas, joint, Jonathan, joystick, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love stick, love truncheon, love sausage, love wand, machine, magnum, Master John Goodfellow, male member, manhood, man-meat, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meatstick, meat stick, member, membrum virile, nature's scythe, nob, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, package, pecker, peen, peener, pee-pee, pee-wee, pego, penis, Percy, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, p-word, python, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (q, colloquial, Yiddish), short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, spitstick, stem, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widgie, widdler, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang
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noun
A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Midwestern-US, dated, slang
Synonyms: dork
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verb
To stab with a dirk.
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verb
To darken.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
a relatively long dagger with a straight blade
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dagger, sticker
History
Borrowed from Dutch and North German Dirk.
Etymology unknown, apparently from Scots dirk. First attested in 1602 as dork, in the later 17th century as durk. The spelling dirk is due to Johnson's Dictionary of 1755. Early quotations as well as Johnson 1755 suggest that the word is of Scottish Gaelic origin, but no such Gaelic word is known. The Gaelic name for the weapon is biodag. Gaelic duirc is merely an 18th-century adoption of the English word. A possible derivation is from the North Germanic/Scandinavian personal name Dirk (short for Diederik), which is used of lock-picking tools (but not of knives or daggers). Alternatively a corruption of Low German Dulk, Dolk (“dagger”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dalk, from Proto-Germanic *dulkaz, *dalkaz (“knife, dagger”), related to Saterland Frisian Dolk (“dagger”), West Frisian dolk (“dagger”), Dutch dolk (“dagger”), German Dolch (“dagger”).
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.
Across languages
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