nerk

English

Noun

nerk (plural nerks)

1. (slang, derogatory) A stupid or objectionable person.
   • 1980, Brian Thompson, Tishoo, a Play, page 21:

     Plants understand more than that. The celery in Barbara's sandwiches has a greater grasp of it than you, you nerk.

   • 1987, Punch, volume 293, numbers 7662-7669, page 30:

     The real Socialists lost that election. They lose council elections too. They always lose elections, which, in view of the kind of nerks who often do get elected, is a shame.

Translations

stupid or objectionable person

• Macedonian: то́кмак m (tókmak), глу́пак m (glúpak), а́кмак m (ákmak)

Anagrams

• Kern, Renk, kern

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• ńerk, ńerch, nerch, njerk

Etymology

Contaminations from original prejotated forms jerk, jerch with *nerstъ.

Noun

nerk m inan

1. roe

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “nerk”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “nerk”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• Zubatý, Josef (1894) “Slavische Etymologien”, in Archiv für slavische Philologie (in German), volume 16, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, pages 401–403