Dirk vs Sword - What's the difference?
dirk | sword |
A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.
* 1883 ,
(US, Midwest, dated, slang) A penis; dork.
* May 1964 , Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2
(US, Midwest, 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
(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.
* 1591 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part III, Act II, Scene II, line 59.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 49.
Someone paid to handle a sword.
(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
(tarot) A card of this suit.
(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
As nouns the difference between dirk and sword
is that dirk is a long Scottish dagger with a straight blade while sword is a long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.As a verb dirk
is to stab with a dirk.As a proper noun Dirk
is a given name derived from Germanic of German and Dutch origin, cognate to Derek.dirk
English
(wikipedia dirk)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- The word dick'' itself serves as model for two variants which are probably Midwestern, ''dirk'' and ''dork , also meaning "penis"...
- ...on at least one Midwestern campus a dirk'' may be an "oddball" student, while a ''prick (more common) is of course an offensive one.
sword
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
- Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.
