dork

Meaning

Noun

  • Alternative of dirk

Origin

  • US 1960s, sense of "silly person" presumably from earlier use as bowdlerization of dick in student slang, particularly Midwest.
  • Alternative etymology derives from dialectal Norwegian dorg.
  • Uncertain; apparently from Scots. See dirk.

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