Dirked vs Firked - What's the difference?
dirked | firked |
(dirk)
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
(firk)
To carry away or about; carry; move.
To drive away.
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
To rouse; raise up.
To move quickly; go off or fly out suddenly; turn out.
* Ben Jonson
As verbs the difference between dirked and firked
is that dirked is (dirk) while firked is (firk).dirked
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*dirk
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(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.
firked
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(head)firk
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* (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) firken, .Verb
(en verb)- I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. - Shakespeare : IV, iv
- A wench is a rare bait, with which a man / No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad.