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Berk

name
/bɝk/US/bɜː(ɹ)k/UK

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.

  1. derived from *berku✻
  2. derived from *berô✻ — “bear”

Definitions

  1. A surname.

  2. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Berk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA