As in 'you are a silly berk....'
2006-12-19 02:32:47 · 15 answers · asked by dawn 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Sorry, there are not many cockanees around here..... But I know someone who will be getting a bunch of fives for calling me one....
2006-12-19 02:47:50 · update #1
Berk is actually rhyming slang and you may not like the answer if someone has recently called you a “Berk”
It actually comes from a much more less well regarded insult which rhymes with Berkley Hunt! This is similar to a lot of rhyming slang where a euphemistic phrase originally intended to soften the social unacceptability of a term has become a word in it’s own right and its original meaning has been forgotten.
A similar example of this in British English is “Taking the Mickey”
Mickey in this example refers to the rhyming slang “Mickey Bliss” and hence the well known phrase “Taking the ****” yet “Taking the Mickey” then became a more accepted phrase meaning “poking fun” and people are perfectly happy for children to use it.
2006-12-19 02:55:12 · answer #1 · answered by Alan M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cockney rhyming slang - Berk = Berkshire Hunt = cünt
2006-12-19 02:45:22 · answer #2 · answered by Captain Flaps 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eggplant Parmesian. It is a vegetable dish that they serve in Italian restaurants. The guy is telling you that you have the brains of a vegetable. He is also giving you a visual of what he wants to do to your skull when he is through with you. There is also the possibility that he is threatening to shove one of those puppies up your behind. It has been used so many different ways in so many movies. In True Romance they were using the term specifically to refer to how an eggplant starts out greed and then turns purple. That was a racial comment similar to the story Hopper tells Walken about how Sicilans are the spawn of blond haired blue eyed iItalians and *****, brown eyed Huns. Of course Walken killed him for the comment.
2016-05-23 07:19:21 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Berk is a quaint term for fool, it's not widely used anymore. It went out of vogue in the early eighties along with wally and Pillock
2006-12-19 02:35:45 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Hyde 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I heard that this was very rude. It means a word that rhymes with Berkshire HUNT
2006-12-19 02:37:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's rhyming slang.
Berkshire Hunt = c*nt.
2006-12-19 02:37:00 · answer #6 · answered by mcfifi 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
dunno
but i know what LOMBARD means
Lots Of Munny But A Right Dipstick!
2006-12-19 02:35:24 · answer #7 · answered by Dirty Larry 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
its like a friendly way of saying retard i think
2006-12-19 02:47:20 · answer #8 · answered by lixy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
noun
a stupid person who is easy to take advantage of
2006-12-19 02:40:58 · answer #9 · answered by pinkcallalillie3 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it means your an idiot...berk equals idiot...
2006-12-19 02:35:00 · answer #10 · answered by Stressed Eric 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋