dork

Etymology 1
US 1960s, sense of "silly person" presumably from earlier use as bowdlerization of in student slang, particularly Midwest. It has never referred specifically to a whale's penis, but penises in general.

Alternative etymology derives from dialectal.

Noun

 * 1)  A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends and typically has unfashionable hobbies.
 * 2) * 1967, Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson:
 * I didn’t have any clothes and I had short hair and looked like a dork. Girls wouldn’t go out with me.
 * 1)  The penis.
 * 1)  The penis.

Usage notes
Narrowly used to indicate someone inept or out of touch, broadly used to mean simply “silly, foolish”; compare,.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:dork
 * See also Thesaurus:penis

Translations

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 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: то́кмак, глу́пак
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: кур, хуй
 * Dutch:, , dees
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Latin:, verpa
 * Macedonian: кур
 * Russian:, ,
 * Turkish: ,

Etymology 2

 * apparently from . See.