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語源 1

From Northern 中期英語 birk, birke, byrke (“birch”), (southern 中期英語 birche). More at birch. (tree): Cognate with Scots birk.

名詞

birk (plural birks)

1. (Northern England) A birch tree.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dirge”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 56:

     Shadows of the silver birk / Sweep the green that folds thy grave.

2. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

語源 2

名詞

birk (plural birks)

1. (British, slang) Alternative spelling of berk

参照

• “birk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.