dork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːk/
ipa: /doɹk/
ipa: /doːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: dorks
Etymology: First use appears in the US c. 1961. The sense of a "silly person" is presumably from earlier use as a bowdlerization of dick (“penis”) in student slang, particularly the Midwest. Despite a common misconception, it has never referred specifically to a whale's penis, but penises in general. Alternative etymology derives from dialectal Norwegian dorg (“a mass; heap; a heavy, dimwitted, slovenly person”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1962, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad, page 167:
text: I didn’t have any clothes and I had short hair and looked like a dork. Girls wouldn’t go out with me.
ref: 1967, Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson
synonyms: dirk#Etymology_3
glosses: A quirky, silly or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends and typically has unfashionable hobbies. (Overlaps conceptually with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence.)
examples: text: As a matter of fact, this slob was full of information today. He told me why we Jews have different dorks.
ref: 1962, Jerome Weidman, The Sound of Bow Bells, page 362:
text: "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.
ref: 1986, Stephen King, It:
text: "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."
ref: 2005, Mike Judge, Reading Sucks: The Collected Works of Beavis and Butthead:
synonyms: word: dirk#Etymology_3
word: anaconda
word: baloney pony
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word: banana
word: birdie
word: bobby
word: boonga
word: cack
word: choad
word: choda
word: chode
word: chopper
word: cigar
word: cock
word: corey
word: crank
word: cucumber
word: custard launcher
word: D
word: dick
word: dicklet
word: diddle
word: diddly
word: dingaling
word: ding-a-ling
word: ding-dong
word: dinger
word: dingle
word: dingus
word: dingy
word: dink
word: dinkle
word: dipstick
word: dirk
word: disco stick
word: dog bone
word: dong
word: donger
word: Donkey Kong
word: doodle
word: dork
word: down
word: fire hose
word: fuckpole
word: gherkin
word: hairy canary
word: hammer
word: hog
word: hot dog
word: hot rod
word: hoo-hoo
word: hooter
word: it
word: jade stalk
word: jamoke
word: jigger
word: jimmy
word: jock
word: johnson
word: John Thomas
word: joint
word: Jonathan
word: joystick
word: kielbasa
word: knob
word: lad
word: langer
word: lingam
word: love muscle
word: love stick
word: love truncheon
word: love sausage
word: love wand
word: machine
word: magnum
word: Master John Goodfellow
word: male member
word: manhood
word: man-meat
word: meat
word: meat puppet
word: meat rod
word: meat scepter
word: meatstick
word: meat stick
word: member
word: membrum virile
word: nature's scythe
word: nob
word: old chap
word: old fellow
word: one-eyed trouser snake
word: organ
word: package
word: pecker
word: peen
word: pee-pee
word: pee-wee
word: pego
word: penis
word: Percy
word: peter
word: phallus
word: pickle
word: piece
word: piece of pork
word: pike
word: pillicock
word: pingas
word: pink cigar
word: pink oboe
word: pintle
word: pipe
word: pisser
word: piston
word: pizzle
word: plonker
word: pork sword
word: prick
word: pud
word: purple-headed yogurt slinger
word: putz
word: p-word
word: python
word: ramrod
word: rape tool
word: rod
word: root
word: rutter
word: salami
word: sausage
word: schlong
word: schmuck
word: sex tool
word: shaft
word: shlong
word: shmekl (qualifier
word: colloquial
word: Yiddish)
word: short arm
word: skin flute
word: snake
word: snausage
word: spitstick
word: stem
word: stretcher
word: sucker
word: swipe
word: tadger
word: tagger
word: tail
word: tallywhacker
word: tarse
word: thing
word: thingy
word: third leg
word: tic tac
word: todger
word: tool
word: trouser monkey
word: trouser snake
word: truncheon
word: tube steak
word: unit
word: virile member
word: wang
word: weapon
word: wee-wee
word: weenie
word: weeny
word: whang
word: wick
word: widgie
word: widdler
word: wiener
word: willie
word: willy
word: wingwang
word: winkle
word: winky
word: yard
word: ying-yang
glosses: The penis.
Synonyms: word: dork
word: flabbergast
word: flabagast
word: flabaghast
word: gink
word: nerd
word: Nigel
word: nosebleed
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: Intelligent
word: socially-inept person:
word: boff
word: dumb genius
word: geek
word: nerdbrain
word: pocket protector
word: propeller head
word: weenie
word: Other:
word: dweeb
word: love-shy
word: saddo
word: wonk
Derived terms: adorkable
dorkazoid
dorkdom
dorkery
dorkface
dorkify
dorkish
dorklike
dork out
dorktastic
dorkwad
dorkwear
dorky
orch dork
uberdork
Related terms: word: dweeb
word: fool
word: milksop
word: outcast