dork

plural dorks

1. derogatoryslangA quirky, silly or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends and typically has unfashionable hobbies. (Overlaps conceptually with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence.)First known use the 20th c.

   I didn’t have any clothes and I had short hair and looked like a dork. Girls wouldn’t go out with me.

   1967, Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson

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   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.

   1962, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad, page 167

   Synonyms: dirk

2. slangvulgarThe penis.First known use the 20th c.

   As a matter of fact, this slob was full of information today. He told me why we Jews have different dorks.

   1962, Jerome Weidman, The Sound of Bow Bells, page 362

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   "You’re dead, Trashmouth," Vince “Boogers” Taliendo told him, pulling his jock up over a dork roughly the size and shape of an anemic peanut.

   1986, Stephen King, It

   "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."

   2005, Mike Judge, Reading Sucks: The Collected Works of Beavis and Butthead

   Synonyms: dirk, anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby

present singular third person dorks · participle present dorking · participle past dorked · past dorked

1. intransitiveslanguncommonTo act or behave in the manner of a dork.
2. intransitiveslanguncommonTo act or behave in an awkward or clumsy manner.

   I spent all weekend dorking with the router settings with no luck, though I could get any one out of my 5 PCs on the net when connected directly to the modem.

   2001 December 3, Jack Price, “Re: Anybody @home?”, in pdx.computing (Usenet)

plural dorks

1. alternativearchaicAlternative form of dirk (“a long dagger”).