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berk

/ bɜːk /

noun

  1. slang.
    a stupid person; fool
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of berk1

C20: shortened from Berkeley or Berkshire Hunt rhyming slang for cunt
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Example Sentences

That must be why I’m such a berk to him all the time,”’ Henry suggests.

Only a lumbering berk like him would suggest holding it in the country’s most comically out of touch room.

We learned the tragic story of how The Hound got his facial scars – and why he is, ergo, a bit of a berk to everybody – all the way back in season one.

On one side are “berks”, careless and coarse, who would destroy the language by polluting it.

A tantalising offer of a “key to your future” saw the introduction of a new group: the peripatetic Georgie, Hilda and some little berk called Midge.

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