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発音

• (General American) IPA: /bɝk/
• (英国発音) IPA: /bɜː(ɹ)k/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)k
• 異形同音異義語: birk, Bourke, burk, Burke, burke

名詞

berk (plural berks)

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, derogatory, vulgar) a fool, a prat, a twit, etc. [1930]
   • 2003 July 12, Nicholas Lezard, “Ad execs quoting Gramsci? Only in France”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2006 February 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 2:

     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.

使用する際の注意点

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

同意語

• See fool and idiot

参考

• Belvoir (pronounced Beaver)

参照

• "berk" in Chambers Dictionary
• "berk" in Jonathon Green's Cassell's Dictionary of Slang →ISBN
• “berk n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

アナグラム

• brek, kerb