dirk
pronunciation
How to pronounce dirk in British English:
UK [dɜ:k]
How to pronounce dirk in American English:
US [dɜrk]
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- Noun:
- a long dagger with a straight blade
Word Origin
- dirk (n.)
- c. 1600, perhaps from Dirk, the proper name, which was used in Scandinavian for "a picklock." But the earliest spellings were dork, durk (Johnson, 1755, seems to be responsible for the modern spelling), and the earliest association is with Highlanders, however there seems to be no such word in Gaelic, where the proper name is biodag. Another candidate is German dolch "dagger." The masc. given name is a variant of Derrick, ultimately from the Germanic compound in Dietrich.
Example
- 1. Mini dirk bike is a killer online bike game .
- 2. Where were you , dirk ? Where were you ?
- 3. When she left with all his money , dirk just * sat around month after month .
- 4. And his picture went up on the dirk 's fund web site .
- 5. I bet dirk bogarde didn 't distemper his mother 's bedspread !