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dirk
/dɝk/
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What does dirk mean?
noun
- A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.
- 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.
verb
- To stab with a dirk.
More meanings (5)
proper noun
- A male given name from German or Dutch, equivalent to English Derek.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
verb
- (obsolete) To darken.
noun
- (dated, slang) A penis.
- (dated, slang) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɝk/
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Toward evening on the second day, what does he do but blandly fetch out a dirk from inside his robe!
It was because I felt this that Dirk Stroeve was not to me, as to others, merely an object of ridicule.
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Once so caught, and nine or ten inches of the blood-stained dirk would be my last experience on this side of eternity.
Are they also unskilled duelists, plunging the dirk into the only easily accessible point, when their very first move is to paralyse the poison-fangs?
Clements mentions a robust German of twenty-two who was stabbed in the abdomen with a dirk, producing an incised wound of the stomach.