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dork
English
Etymology 1
US 1960s, sense of "silly person" presumably from earlier use as bowdlerization of dick (“penis”) in student slang, particularly Midwest.
Alternative etymology derives from dialectal Norwegian dorg (“a mass; heap; a heavy, dimwitted, slovenly person”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??k/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
Noun
dork (plural dorks)
- (derogatory, slang) A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends. Often confused with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence. [from the 20th c.]
- 1967, Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson:
- I didn’t have any clothes and I had short hair and looked like a dork. Girls wouldn’t go out with me.
- 1967, Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson:
- (vulgar, slang) A penis. [from the 20th c.]
Usage notes
Narrowly used to indicate someone inept or out of touch, broadly used to mean simply “silly, foolish”; compare doofus, twit.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:dork
- See also Thesaurus:penis
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- dweeb
Etymology 2
Uncertain; apparently from Scots. See dirk.
Noun
dork (plural dorks)
- (archaic) Alternative form of dirk (“a long dagger”)
References
Anagrams
- K-Rod
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doofus
English
Alternative forms
- dufus
Etymology
Perhaps an alteration of earlier goofus (first attested in the 1920s), due to influence from Scots doof (“simpleton”). Scots doof is derived from Low German doof (“deaf”), which has a secondary sense: "idiotic". The Low Saxon word is cognate with English deaf.
Some have proposed that perhaps dupe played some kind of role in the development of doofus as well.
Goofus appears to be a fanciful extension of goof, perhaps taking its ending from ignoramus. Goof likely originated as an alteration of the (now obsolete) English goff ("a clown")—compare English geek, which originated as an alteration of geck ("simpleton")—but any of its history prior to that is up for debate, and difficult to precisely trace.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -u?f?s
- IPA(key): /?du?f?s/
Noun
doofus (plural doofuses or doofi)
- (slang) A person with poor judgment and taste.
- Stocks Genius or Dot-Com Doofus? – Wired News
- Danny is such a doofus!
- 1998, Ann Rule, In the Name of Love, in In the Name of Love and Other True Cases: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 4, page 185,
- Nichols had called Bonilla a doofus who was too damn stupid to realize that he was being taken by a hooker with a convincing sob story.
- Even if Steve was a doofus, Nichols and Rand were quite willing to work for him as long as he had money.
- 2005 October 17, Kevin Amorin, Mewsday, quoted in 2007, Troth Wells, T-Shirt, page 14,
- Being too young to attend a show on Bowie's 1983 Serious Moonlight tour, I did what any underage doofus would do. I bought a concert T-shirt – three-quarter-length blue sleeves, image of Major Tom himself on the front.
- "That's doofi, Krakauer. Sorry to correct you."
Synonyms
- (person with poor judgement and taste): boob, dolt, blockhead, lowbrow, oaf
Related terms
- doof
- doofy
Translations
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