Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a dagger, especially of the Scottish Highlands.
verb (used with object)
- to stab with a dirk.
noun
- a male given name, form of Derek.
noun
- a dagger esp as formerly worn by Scottish Highlanders
verb (tr)
- to stab with a dirk
c.1600, perhaps from Dirk, the proper name, which was used in Scandinavian for “a picklock.” But the earliest spellings were dork, durk (Johnson, 1755, seems to be responsible for the modern spelling), and the earliest association is with Highlanders, however there seems to be no such word in Gaelic, where the proper name is biodag. Another candidate is German dolch “dagger.”