Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dirk
Participle: dirked
Gerund: dirking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dirk |
| you | dirk |
| he;she;it | dirks |
| we | dirk |
| you | dirk |
| they | dirk |
Perfect
| I | have dirked |
| you | have dirked |
| he;she;it | has dirked |
| we | have dirked |
| you | have dirked |
| they | have dirked |
Past
| I | dirked |
| you | dirked |
| he;she;it | dirked |
| we | dirked |
| you | dirked |
| they | dirked |
Pluperfect
| I | had dirked |
| you | had dirked |
| he;she;it | had dirked |
| we | had dirked |
| you | had dirked |
| they | had dirked |
Future
| I | will dirk |
| you | will dirk |
| he;she;it | will dirk |
| we | will dirk |
| you | will dirk |
| they | will dirk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dirked |
| you | will have dirked |
| he;she;it | will have dirked |
| we | will have dirked |
| you | will have dirked |
| they | will have dirked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dirk |
| you | dirk |
| he;she;it | dirk |
| we | dirk |
| you | dirk |
| they | dirk |
Perfect
| I | have dirked |
| you | have dirked |
| he;she;it | have dirked |
| we | have dirked |
| you | have dirked |
| they | have dirked |
Imperfect
| I | dirked |
| you | dirked |
| he;she;it | dirked |
| we | dirked |
| you | dirked |
| they | dirked |
Pluperfect
| I | had dirked |
| you | had dirked |
| he;she;it | had dirked |
| we | had dirked |
| you | had dirked |
| they | had dirked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dirk |
| you | would dirk |
| he;she;it | would dirk |
| we | would dirk |
| you | would dirk |
| they | would dirk |
Perfect
| I | would have dirked |
| you | would have dirked |
| he;she;it | would have dirked |
| we | would have dirked |
| you | would have dirked |
| they | would have dirked |
Imperative
| you | dirk |
| we | Let's dirk |
| you | dirk |
Verbs conjugated like 'dirk'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dirk'
dark,
dick,
dink,
dirl,
dirt,
disk,
firk,
irk,
lirk,
mirk,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology unknown, apparently from Scots dirk.
2. First attested in 1602 as dork, in the later 17th century as durk. The spelling dirk is due to Johnson's Dictionary of 1755.
3. Early quotations as well as Johnson 1755 suggest that the word is of Scottish Gaelic origin, but no such Gaelic word is known. The Gaelic name for the weapon is biodag. Gaelic duirc is merely an 18th-century adoption of the English word.
4. A possible derivation is from the North Germanic/Scandinavian personal name Dirk (short for Diederik), which is used of lock-picking tools (but not of knives or daggers). Alternatively a corruption of Low German Dulk, Dolk (“dagger”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dalk, from Proto-Germanic *dulkaz, *dalkaz (“knife, dagger”), related to Saterland Frisian Dolk (“dagger”), West Frisian dolk (“dagger”), Dutch dolk (“dagger”), German Dolch (“dagger”). See: Scots '
dirk'.
Sample Sentences
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Roland Graeme has dirked Adam Woodstock — that is all.” ¶ “Good Heaven!” said the Lady, turning pale as ashes, “is the man slain?” [1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2014, Chapter the Fourth:]
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For these offenses, I was informed privately, by a worthy English settler, who had been like me seduced by Mr. Birkbeck, they had hired a man to dirk me for ten dollars, the usual price of blood in this country, as Mr. Chichester says. [1825, James Kirke Paulding, John Bull in America; or, the New Munchausen, page 127:]