dirk

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch and North German Dirk.

1. A male given name from German or Dutch, equivalent to English Derek.
2. A surname transferred from the given name.

noun

Etymology: Unlikely not to have come from the same murky origins as dork, despite sound variation among dick-dirk-dork. Influence from der seems plausibly intermixed.

1. A penis.

   “The word dick itself serves as model for two variants which are probably Midwestern, dirk and dork, also meaning "penis"...”

2. A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.

   “Near-synonym: dork”

   “...on at least one Midwestern campus a dirk may be an "oddball" student, while a prick (more common) is of course an offensive one.”

verb

1. To darken.

   “Thy wast bignes but combers the grownd, / And dirks the beauty of my blossomes rownd.”