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Is dirk a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dirk is a Scrabble US word. The word dirk is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

D2I1R1K5

Is dirk a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dirk is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

D2I1R1K5

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4-letter words (1 found)

DIRK,

3-letter words (4 found)

IRK,KID,KIR,RID,

2-letter words (3 found)

DI,ID,KI,

You can make 8 words from dirk according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dirk

dirk idrk drik rdik irdk ridk dikr idkr dkir kdir ikdr kidr drki rdki dkri kdri rkdi krdi irkd rikd ikrd kird rkid krid

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word dirk. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in dirk.

Definitions and meaning of dirk

dirk

Etymology

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 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-Germanic *dulkaz, *dalkaz (“knife, dagger”), related to Saterland Frisian Dolk (“dagger”), West Frisian dolk (“dagger”), Dutch dolk (“dagger”), German Dolch (“dagger”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɜːk/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dɝk/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

Noun

dirk (plural dirks)

  1. A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.
  2. (nautical) 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.
  3. (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A penis; dork.
    • May 1964, Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2
      The word dick itself serves as model for two variants which are probably Midwestern, dirk and dork, also meaning "penis"...
  4. (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.
    • May 1964, Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2
      ...on at least one Midwestern campus a dirk may be an "oddball" student, while a prick (more common) is of course an offensive one.

Derived terms

  • dirk knife

Translations

Verb

dirk (third-person singular simple present dirks, present participle dirking, simple past and past participle dirked)

  1. To stab with a dirk.
  2. (obsolete) To darken.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

dirk

  1. imperative of dirka

Scots

Alternative forms

  • durk

Etymology

From earlier durk, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to German Dolch (“dagger”).

Noun

dirk (plural dirks)

  1. dirk

Verb

dirk (third-person singular simple present dirks, present participle dirkin, simple past dirkt, past participle dirkt)

  1. dirk

Source: wiktionary.org