berk
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of berk
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
- A surname.
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name
- A surname.
noun
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(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar)a fool, a prat, a twit, etc.
“However, it appears as if the berk who built the box ran out of wood and has left the end wall off.”
“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.”
“I don't know why they couldn't just keep it as it was! How hard is it to remember 911? You mean 999... I mean 999! That's the American one! Yeah! You berk.”
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Etymology
* 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.
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