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dirk
English
Etymology
Etymology unknown, apparently from Scots drik.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 Scandinavian personal name Dirk (short for Diederik), which is used of lock-picking tools (but not of knives or daggers). Another possibility is that dork originates as a sailor's or soldier's corruption of dolk, the Dutch and Scandinavian form of German Dolch (“dagger”).
The American slang term may be a variant of dick (“penis”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
Noun
dirk (plural dirks)
- A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discolored to the hilt with blood.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A penis; dork.
- May 1964, Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2
- The word dick itself serves as model for two variants which are probably Midwestern, dirk and dork, also meaning "penis"...
- May 1964, Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2
- (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.
- May 1964, Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2
- ...on at least one Midwestern campus a dirk may be an "oddball" student, while a prick (more common) is of course an offensive one.
- May 1964, Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2
Translations
Verb
dirk (third-person singular simple present dirks, present participle dirking, simple past and past participle dirked)
- To stab with a dirk.
- (obsolete) To darken.
- c. 1378, Geoffrey Chaucer (translator), Boece, Book I:
- The beaute the whiche clothes a derknesse of a forleten and despised elde hadde duskid and dirked, as it is wont to dirken besmokede ymages
- c. 1378, Geoffrey Chaucer (translator), Boece, Book I:
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
dirk
- imperative of dirka
Scots
Alternative forms
- durk
Etymology
From earlier durk, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to German Dolch (“dagger”).
Noun
dirk (plural dirks)
- dirk
Verb
dirk (third-person singular present dirks, present participle dirkin, past dirkt, past participle dirkt)
- dirk
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poniard
English
Alternative forms
- poignard, poinard, poynard, punierd
Etymology
Borrowed from French poignard, from poing (“fist”), from Old French, from Latin p?gnus (“fist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pew?-.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?nj?d/, /?p?nj??d/
Noun
poniard (plural poniards)
- (now chiefly historical) A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.1:
- The sir King ha's wag'd with him six Barbary horses, / against the which he impon'd as I take it, sixe French / Rapiers and Poniards, with their assignes, as Girdle, / Hangers or so […].
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 101:
- One of the tragic authors, finding himself assaulted in the dark, had, by way of poinard, employed upon his adversary's throat a knife which lay upon the table, for the convenience of cutting cheese […] .
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- On this occasion I said nothing, but concealing his poniard in my clothes, I hasted up the mountain, determined to execute my purpose […].
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.1:
Translations
Verb
poniard (third-person singular simple present poniards, present participle poniarding, simple past and past participle poniarded)
- To stab with a poniard.
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:
- Manfred […] would have poignarded the peasant in their arms.
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:
Related terms
- impugn
- pugilism
- pugnacious
- repugn (repugnant)
References
- “poniard”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
- “poniard” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "poniard" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
Anagrams
- padroni, pandori, paridon, poinard
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