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berk

/ ɜː /

noun

  1. slang.
    a stupid person; fool
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of berk1

C20: shortened from Berkeley or Berkshire Hunt rhyming slang for cunt
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Only a lumbering berk like him would suggest holding it in the country’s most comically out of touch room.

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We learned the tragic story of how The Hound got his facial scars – and why he is, ergo, a bit of a berk to everybody – all the way back in season one.

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On one side are “berks”, careless and coarse, who would destroy the language by polluting it.

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A tantalising offer of a “key to your future” saw the introduction of a new group: the peripatetic Georgie, Hilda and some little berk called Midge.

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Last season it was Liverpool, now it’s Manchester United showing that they’re not too haughty to try winning this trophy, while the likes of Southampton and West Ham use it to make berks of themselves.

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