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单词 erk
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Definition of erk in English:

erk

noun əːk
British dated, informal
  • A male member of the RAF of the lowest rank.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ron Swain has never forgotten the years he spent as a conscript in the UK Armed Forces, his two-year stint as an ‘erk’ in the Royal Air Force in 1952-3 having been particularly eventful.
    • One day you were an erk and the next day you were commissioned.
    • I was showing a new erk round the aircraft.
exclamationəːk
  • Expressing panic or dismay.

    Erk! What's that?
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Kershat and Elan are totally new, and I've even got tons of their lives planned out… erk.
    • However, he is an incredibly intelligent (his postgraduate study was in linguistics… erk!) and instantly likeable man who was only too happy to chat with me.
    • Well, now I'm 25 mature and sophisticated years old and - erk - growing up.
    • I won't even mention the one where he plays a single dad erk!

Origin

1920s: of unknown origin.

Rhymes

berk, berserk, Burke, cirque, dirk, Dunkirk, irk, kirk, lurk, mirk, murk, outwork, perk, quirk, shirk, smirk, stirk, Turk, work
 
 
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