Berk


noun
(Brit, slang) a stupid person; fool
Contemporary Examples

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Historical Examples

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n.

This is not an objective, anatomical term, neither does it imply coitus. It connects with that extension of meaning of the unprintable, a fool, or a person whom one does not like. [“Dictionary of Rhyming Slang,” 1960]

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