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Dirted vs Dirked - What's the difference?

dirted | dirked |

As verbs the difference between dirted and dirked

is that dirted is (dirt) while dirked is (dirk).

dirted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dirt)

    • dirt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • soil or earth
  • A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
  • Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
    • The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
  • Meanness; sordidness.
  • * Melmoth
    • honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
  • In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

    • Derived terms

    * dirt bike * dirt nap * dirty * do someone dirt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

    • dirked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dirk)

    • Anagrams

    *

    dirk

    English

    (wikipedia dirk)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.
  • * 1883 ,
    • 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.
  • (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
    • The word dick'' itself serves as model for two variants which are probably Midwestern, ''dirk'' and ''dork , also meaning "penis"...
  • (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
    • ...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

    (en verb)
  • To stab with a dirk.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (obsolete) To darken.
    • (Spenser)
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