nerk, n. slang.
(nɜːk)
Also nurk.
[Of uncertain origin: cf. nerd n. and jerk n.1 5.]
A foolish, objectionable, or insignificant person. (contemptuous.)
| 1966 A. Prior Operators xv. 235 ‘Slow it down, you nerk, the girl has to get in,’ he yelled. 1970 Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 3 July 24/1 The total effect of this nifty trick is that you apparently shot the various paintings..inside the gallery, without being confronted by a uniformed nurk and arrested on the spot. 1975 Clement & La Frenais Porridge 7 Charmless nurk. 1979 C. Hawke For Campaign Service 193 The poor bloody squaddies carry the can, both from the nerks on the street and the nobbers in their own lot. 1980 J. Wainwright Dominoes vi. 143 Cooley turned..and for the first time saw this latest nerk who wanted to blow holes in his hide. 1984 Financial Times 15 Sept. (Jobs Col. Suppl.) p. i/2 It dunmarrer if thas a nerk as longasatorks reet—an if tha dunt get rid o thi dialect wi goan ter collidge, thazzadit! |
Hence ˈnerkish a.
| 1975 Clement & La Frenais Porridge 60 You are a grotty, nurkish git. |