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Donk vs Dork - What's the difference?

donk | dork |

As nouns the difference between donk and dork

is that donk is a car's engine while dork is a penis.

As a verb donk

is to provide a second person with a lift on a bicycle (formerly, on a horse), seating the passenger either in front (on the handlebar) or behind (sharing the seat); to travel as a passenger in such manner.

donk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, slang) A car's engine.
  • (Australia, slang) A fool.
  • (British, uncountable) A sub-genre of scouse house music (from a common percussive sound used in it).
  • (poker, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Australia, colloquial, slang) To provide a second person with a lift on a bicycle (formerly, on a horse), seating the passenger either in front (on the handlebar) or behind (sharing the seat); to travel as a passenger in such manner.
  • * 1947 , Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney , Volumes 8-10, page 87,
    • It was the scene where Steve, Blue, Charl and Pricie-ole-man all mount Seldomfed in the dark and rain on their way to rob a neighbour?s orchard. It would very likely raise a reminiscent smile or grin from one who doubled or trebled or quadrupled-donked it to school.
  • (slang) To hit.
  • * 2007 , Mardi McConnochie, Dangerous Games , page 121,
    • He rested my shoulder on the lid of the toilet seat and tried pushing me out feet first, but I sagged in the middle and jack-knifed onto the floor, donking my head on the porcelain.
  • * 2011 , Susan Brocker, The Wolf in the Wardrobe , unnumbered page,
    • Little Red Riding Hood donked the Big Bad Wolf on the head with the basket and the audience laughed.

    Synonyms

    * (provide lift on a bicycle) dink, donkey, double-bank, double-dink, double-donk, double-donkey

    Derived terms

    * donk bet ----

    dork

    English

    Etymology 1

    US 1960s, sense of "silly person" presumably from earlier use as bowdlerization of Lawrence Poston, “ Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang,” American Speech 39, no. 2 (May 1964) (JSTOR 453113): p. 118.Historical Dictionary of American Slang, v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994), p. 638.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1962 , Jerome Weidman, The Sound of Bow Bells page 362:
    • As a matter of fact, this slob was full of information today. He told me why we Jews have different dorks .
  • * 2005 , Mike Judge, Reading Sucks: The Collected Works of Beavis and Butthead :
    • "There's that dork whose wife cut off his dork ." And when people ask him for an autograph he writes, "Best of luck to Betsy. Signed, the guy whose wife cut off his penis."
  • * 1962 , Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad page 167:
    • I entitled the piece "Dorky", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.
  • * 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.
    Usage notes
    Narrowly used to indicate someone inept or out of touch, broadly used to mean simply “silly, foolish”; compare (doofus), (twit).
    Derived terms
    * dorkface * to dorkify * dorkwad * dorky
    Synonyms
    * See also * See also

    Etymology 2

    Uncertain; apparently from (etyl). See (dirk).

    Noun

    (en noun)
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