dirk

FREQ #12099

n. 短剑, 匕首 vt. 用短剑刺

发音

UK /dɜːk/
AU
US /dɝk/

词形变化

dirks 复数 dirks 三单 dirking 现在分词 dirked 过去式 dirked 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.

  2. 2.

    A ceremonial dagger worn by naval or air force officers in some nations' militaries; formerly, a fighting dagger used by sailors as a boarding weapon.

    航海 交通
  3. 1.

    A penis.

    过时 俚语

    The word dick itself serves as model for two variants which are probably Midwestern, dirk and dork, also meaning "penis"...

  4. 2.

    A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.

    过时 俚语

    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.

v.
  1. 1.

    To stab with a dirk.

  2. 1.

    To darken.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

dagger sticker

相关短语

dirk knife dirk knives

词源

Etymology unknown, apparently from Scots dirk. First attested in 1602 as dork, in the later 17th century as durk. The spelling dirk is due to Johnson's Dictionary of 1755. Early quotations as well as Johnson 1755 suggest that the word is of Scottish Gaelic origin, but no such Gaelic word is known. The Gaelic name for the weapon is biodag. Gaelic duirc is merely an 18th-century adoption of the English word. A possible derivation is from the North Germanic/Scandinavian personal name Dirk (short for Diederik), which is used of lock-picking tools (but not of knives or daggers). Alternatively a corruption of Low German Dulk, Dolk (“dagger”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dalk, from Proto-Germanic *dulkaz, *dalkaz (“knife, dagger”), related to Saterland Frisian Dolk (“dagger”), West Frisian dolk (“dagger”), Dutch dolk (“dagger”), German Dolch (“dagger”).

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