berk

berk · noun¹

Cockney rhyming slang, an ellipsis and clipping of Berkeley Hunt, a prominent hunt at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, to mean cunt.

Berk · proper noun²

1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*berku
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*berô“bear”
3. English todayBerk

* As a Dutch, Czech, and Polish surname, from a Germanic personal name stemming from Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”). Also see Bernhard. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from the word for birch tree, from Proto-West Germanic *berku. * As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Berg.

Words from the same roots

First known use, by meaning

• 1930 a fool, a prat, a twit, etc.