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発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɔɹk/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /dɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

名詞

dork (複数形 dorks)

1. (derogatory, slang) A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends and typically has unfashionable hobbies. (Overlaps conceptually with nerd かつ geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence.) [from the 20th c.]
   • 1962, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad, page 167:

     I entitled the piece "Dorky", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.

   • 1967, Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson:^[1][4]

     I didn’t have any clothes and I had short hair and looked like a dork. Girls wouldn’t go out with me.

2. (vulgar, slang) The penis. [from the 20th c.]
   • 1962, Jerome Weidman, The Sound of Bow Bells, page 362:

     As a matter of fact, this slob was full of information today. He told me why we Jews have different dorks.

   • 1986, Stephen King, It:

     "You’re dead, Trashmouth," Vince “Boogers” Taliendo told him, pulling his jock up over a dork roughly the size and shape of an anemic peanut.

   • 2005, Mike Judge, Reading Sucks: The Collected Works of Beavis and Butthead:

     "There's that dork whose wife cut off his dork." And when people ask him for an autograph he writes, "Best of luck to Betsy. Signed, the guy whose wife cut off his penis."

使用する際の注意点

Narrowly used to indicate someone inept or out of touch, broadly used to mean simply “silly, foolish”; compare doofus, twit.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:dork
• See also Thesaurus:penis

派生語

参考

• dweeb

語源 2

Uncertain; apparently from Scots. See dirk.

名詞

dork (複数形 dorks)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of dirk (“a long dagger”)

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アナグラム

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