dirk

Plural: dirks

Noun

a relatively long dagger with a straight blade
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.
A penis.
A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.

Verb

Verb Forms: dirked, dirking, dirks

To stab with a dirk, a long thrusting dagger.
To stab with a dirk.
To darken.

Examples

He attempted to DIRK a strategic space on the Scrabble board with a single tile.

Origin / Etymology

Etymology unknown, apparently from Scots dirk.
First attested in 1602 as dork, in the later 17th century as durk. The spelling dirk is due to Johnson's Dictionary of 1755.
Early quotations as well as Johnson 1755 suggest that the word is of Scottish Gaelic origin, but no such Gaelic word is known. The Gaelic name for the weapon is biodag. Gaelic duirc is merely an 18th-century adoption of the English word.
A possible derivation is from the North Germanic/Scandinavian personal name Dirk (short for Diederik), which is used of lock-picking tools (but not of knives or daggers). Alternatively a corruption of Low German Dulk, Dolk (“dagger”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dalk, from Proto-Germanic *dulkaz, *dalkaz (“knife, dagger”), related to Saterland Frisian Dolk (“dagger”), West Frisian dolk (“dagger”), Dutch dolk (“dagger”), German Dolch (“dagger”).

Synonyms

D, Donkey Kong, John Thomas, Jonathan, Master John Goodfellow, Percy, Yiddish), anaconda, bald-headed hermit, baloney pony, banana, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, colloquial, corey, crank, cucumber, custard launcher, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dingaling, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, doodle, dork, down, fire hose, fuckpole, gherkin, hairy canary, hammer, hog, hoo-hoo, hooter, hot dog, hot rod, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, jock, johnson, joint, joystick, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love sausage, love stick, love truncheon, love wand, machine, magnum, male member, man-meat, manhood, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meat stick, meatstick, member, membrum virile, nature's scythe, nob, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, p-word, package, pecker, pee-pee, pee-wee, peen, pego, penis, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, python, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (qualifier, short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, spitstick, stem, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widdler, widgie, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang

Scrabble Score: 9

dirk: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
dirk: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dirk: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

dirk: valid Words With Friends Word