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A dirk is a short, heavy, pointed knife that Scottish used as a weapon in the past. It was worn on the person, often with traditional dress, and it was for close fighting, not for the kitchen. You meet the word in museums, history, and stories about Scotland. It is not the word for a knife in a modern drawer. The man’s name Dirk is a different thing that only happens to look the same on the page. Nobody is sure where the knife-word came from. It shows up in in the 1600s as , then later as durk; the spelling dirk is the one Dr Johnson put in his dictionary in 1755. People used to say it came from , but the name for that weapon is biodag, and duirc is just the English word borrowed back. Other guesses exist; they are only guesses. The honest origin story is: we do not really know.
組成Etymology unknown; apparently from Scots dirk. First seen in 1602 as dork, later as durk; the spelling dirk comes from Johnson’s Dictionary (1755). A Gaelic origin is often suggested, but no matching Gaelic word is known.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Dirkname/dɜːk/
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A male given name from German or Dutch, equivalent to English Derek.
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A surname transferred from the given name.
dirknoun詞源 1/dɜːk/
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A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.
- The Claymore is worn on the left side, the dirk on the right, and the Skean Dhu in the stocking […]
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nauticaltransportA ceremonial dagger worn by naval or air force officers in some nations' militaries; formerly, a fighting dagger used by sailors as a boarding weapon.
- In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discolored to the hilt with blood.
- In this kit was the ‘Officer of the Watch’ telescope from Dolland and Sons, presented to me by my godmother, Inman's Nautical Tables, a parallel ruler, and, of course, a dirk.
dirkverb詞源 1/dɜːk/
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To stab with a dirk.
- Roland Graeme has dirked Adam Woodstock — that is all.” ¶ “Good Heaven!” said the Lady, turning pale as ashes, “is the man slain?”
- For these offenses, I was informed privately, by a worthy English settler, who had been like me seduced by Mr. Birkbeck, they had hired a man to dirk me for ten dollars, the usual price of blood in this country, as Mr. Chichester says.
dirkverb詞源 2
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obsoleteTo darken.
- Thy wast bignes but combers the grownd, / And dirks the beauty of my blossomes rownd.
dirknoun詞源 3
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datedslangA penis.
- The word dick itself serves as model for two variants which are probably Midwestern, dirk and dork, also meaning "penis"...
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datedslangA socially unacceptable person; an oddball.
- Near-synonym: dork
- ...on at least one Midwestern campus a dirk may be an "oddball" student, while a prick (more common) is of course an offensive one.
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