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Birk

//bɝk// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A male given name.
Noun
  1. 1
    A birch tree. Northern-England

    "Shadows of the silver birk / Sweep the green that folds thy grave."

  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of berk. British, alt-of, alternative, slang
  3. 3
    A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Northern Middle English birk, birke, byrke (“birch”), (southern Middle English birche). More at birch. (tree): Cognate with Scots birk.

Etymology 2

From the Anglo-Norman surname, from Old English burh, burg (“fortification, city”).

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