Berk

//bɝk// name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    a fool, a prat, a twit, etc. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar

    "His chat-up techniques have to be read to be imagined—they make the crudest of Loaded-style berks seem classy—and he earns far, far too much money."

  2. 2
    a stupid person who is easy to take advantage of wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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fuckwitjerkairheadanusarseholeass

Example

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"I want to apologise for calling you a berk in front of your girlfriend."

Etymology

Etymology 1

* As a Dutch, Czech, and Polish surname, from a Germanic personal name stemming from Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”). Also see Bernhard. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from the word for birch tree, from Proto-West Germanic *berku. * As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Berg.

Etymology 2

Cockney rhyming slang, an ellipsis and clipping of Berkeley Hunt, a prominent hunt at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, to mean cunt.

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