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All 4 letters words made out of berk

berk ebrk brek rbek erbk rebk bekr ebkr bker kber ekbr kebr brke rbke bkre kbre rkbe krbe erkb rekb ekrb kerb rkeb kreb

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Definitions and meaning of berk

berk

Etymology

Cockney rhyming slang, an ellipsis and clipping of Berkeley Hunt, a prominent hunt at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, to mean cunt.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɝk/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɜː(ɹ)k/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
• Homophone: birk

Noun

berk (plural berks)

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory, vulgar) a fool, a prat, a twit, etc. [1930]

Usage notes

Although the term remains in fairly wide use, its specific origin and meaning in rhyming slang is less well known, lessening its vulgarity.

Synonyms

• See fool and idiot

See also

• Belvoir (pronounced Beaver)

References

• "berk" in Chambers Dictionary
• "berk" in Jonathon Green's Cassell's Dictionary of Slang →ISBN
• Jonathon Green (2024) “berk n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• brek, kerb

Albanian

Etymology 1

From berr (cf. derk from derr).

Noun

berk m (plural berqe, definite berku, definite plural berqet)

1. goat

Declension

Related terms

• berr

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *bardz(i)ka, from *bardza > bardhë (“white”). Similar sense development as in barmë.

Noun

berk m (plural berqe, definite berku, definite plural berqet)

1. (botany) sapwood, alburnum
2. (dialectal) bark

Declension

Related terms

• barmë

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch berke, from Old Dutch *berka, from Proto-West Germanic *berku, from Proto-Germanic *berkō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛrk/
• Hyphenation: berk
• Rhymes: -ɛrk

Noun

berk m (plural berken, diminutive berkje n)

1. birch, tree of the genus Betula

   Synonym: berkenboom

Derived terms

• berkenboom
• berkenroede
• berkhaan
• berkhoen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: berk

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛʁk/

Interjection

berk

1. Alternative form of beurk: yuck!

Old Norse

Contraction

berk

1. (bragarmál) Contraction of ber ek.

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish برك (berk), from Proto-Turkic *berk (“mighty”). Related to pek.

Adjective

berk

1. strong, hard, robust, violent

   Synonyms: sert, katı

2. heroic
3. firm, solid

   Synonym: sağlam

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “berk1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “برك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 356
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill: “*parki”

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish برق (berk), from Arabic بَرْق (barq).

Noun

berk (definite accusative berki, plural berkler) (archaic)

1. lightning

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “berk2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN