Dork vs Doo - What's the difference?
dork | doo |
* 1962 , Jerome Weidman, The Sound of Bow Bells page 362:
* 2005 , Mike Judge, Reading Sucks: The Collected Works of Beavis and Butthead :
* 1962 , Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad page 167:
* 1967 , Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson:
(music)
* 1995 , Phil Farrand, The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers: Volume 2
* 2006 , Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music (page 272)
As a proper noun dork
is ellis island records indicate people registering as early as 1907 with dork as their last name [http://ellisislandorg/search/matchmoreasp?lnm=dork&plnm=dork&first_kind=1&kind=exact&offset=0&dwpdone=1].As a verb doo is
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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)- As a matter of fact, this slob was full of information today. He told me why we Jews have different dorks .
- "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."
- 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.
- 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 * dorkySynonyms
* See also * See alsoEtymology 2
Uncertain; apparently from (etyl). See (dirk).References
doo
English
Synonyms
* BM * doo-doo * poo * poopInterjection
(en interjection)- (Ever feel like you've just entered... The Twilight Zone? Doo , doo, doo, doo, doo, doo....)
- the bloke who sang about coloured girls going 'doo de doo de doo doo d'de doo de doo de doo' had once had this thing with the guy who produced the debut albums by the Stooges and Patti Smith.