"berk" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Cockney rhyming slang, an ellipsis and clipping of Berkeley Hunt, a prominent hunt at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, to mean cunt.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "berks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "berk (plural berks)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Commonwealth English",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 July 12, Nicholas Lezard, “Ad execs quoting Gramsci? Only in France”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "His chat-up techniques have to be read to be imagined—they make the crudest of Loaded-style berks seem classy—and he earns far, far too much money.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 February 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 2:",
          "text": "I don't know why they couldn't just keep it as it was! How hard is it to remember 911?\nYou mean 999...\nI mean 999!\nThat's the American one!\nYeah!\nYou berk.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a fool, a prat, a twit, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-berk-en-noun-7oc~tD5W",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "fool",
          "fool"
        ],
        [
          "prat",
          "prat"
        ],
        [
          "twit",
          "twit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, derogatory, vulgar) a fool, a prat, a twit, etc."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "english": "pronounced Beaver",
          "word": "Belvoir"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fool and idiot"
        }
      ],
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        "Commonwealth",
        "Ireland",
        "UK",
        "derogatory",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Berkeley Castle",
        "Berkeley Hunt"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɝk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bɜː(ɹ)k/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-berk.ogg",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)k"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "birk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "berk"
}

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    "Pages with 6 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Cockney rhyming slang, an ellipsis and clipping of Berkeley Hunt, a prominent hunt at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, to mean cunt.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "berks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "pronounced Beaver",
      "word": "Belvoir"
    }
  ],
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        "Cockney rhyming slang",
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English ellipses",
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        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English vulgarities",
        "Irish English",
        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)k",
        "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)k/1 syllable"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2003 July 12, Nicholas Lezard, “Ad execs quoting Gramsci? Only in France”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "His chat-up techniques have to be read to be imagined—they make the crudest of Loaded-style berks seem classy—and he earns far, far too much money.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 February 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 2:",
          "text": "I don't know why they couldn't just keep it as it was! How hard is it to remember 911?\nYou mean 999...\nI mean 999!\nThat's the American one!\nYeah!\nYou berk.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "a fool, a prat, a twit, etc."
      ],
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "fool",
          "fool"
        ],
        [
          "prat",
          "prat"
        ],
        [
          "twit",
          "twit"
        ]
      ],
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        "(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, derogatory, vulgar) a fool, a prat, a twit, etc."
      ],
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        "Commonwealth",
        "Ireland",
        "UK",
        "derogatory",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ],
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        "Berkeley Castle",
        "Berkeley Hunt"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɝk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bɜː(ɹ)k/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)k"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "birk"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fool and idiot"
    }
  ],
  "word": "berk"
}