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dork

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4 lettersPronunciation /dɔːk/Part of speech nounSorted dkorStarts with DEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. a dull stupid fatuous person

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • I didn’t have any clothes and I had short hair and looked like a dork. Girls wouldn’t go out with me.
  • As a matter of fact, this slob was full of information today. He told me why we Jews have different dorks.

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