Dork is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like jerk or misfit. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dork meaning
- A quirky, silly or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends and typically has unfashionable hobbies. (Overlaps conceptually with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence.)
- The penis.
Using Dork
- The main meaning on this page is: A quirky, silly or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends and typically has unfashionable hobbies. (Overlaps conceptually with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence.) | The penis.
- Useful related words include: jerk, misfit.
- In the example corpus, dork often appears in combinations such as: dork gently, like dork, dork and.
Context around Dork
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dork
- In this selection, "dork" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, orch, stock, annoying, gently, took and specializes stand out and add context to how "dork" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a big dork and he and a shy dork and sexy. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dork" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dork
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And that is not HER fault, dork-face! (8 words)
The only librarian I knew was a dork idiot. (9 words)
Dork Gently: NewportBarGuy: It doesn't do jack sh*t. (10 words)
She would threaten ne’er-do-well wine salespeople (I’m looking at you, Cork Dork!) that, if they didn’t live up to her exacting expectations, they would owe her a bottle of Salon — a Champagne that you might be lucky enough to find for $500 a bottle. (49 words)
Caught unawares, the whole thing is a comedy of error piled up upon error, starting with the initial launch warning, done by a low-level worker, and ricocheting to the governor's office, where the poor dork was searching for his sign-in and password. (45 words)
Rannells is also a delight as usual, hamming it up as a new New Yorker on a journey from big sweaty dork to big swinging dick, and Scheer, Sanz, and Lester lend a kooky –ishness to the proceedings. (38 words)
They're like "Well, I got caught in a climate-change-caused hurricane, but who am I going to believe, some bought-and-paid-for dork on social media, or my lying eyes (and compound fracture)? (36 words)
And that is not HER fault, dork-face! (8 words)
Example sentences (20)
But, in 2007, a self-described 'orch dork' took home the honor.
It’s not the moment to be hyper-managing one’s own social media presence, lest anyone think you’re insular or a conservative or a dork.
They're like "Well, I got caught in a climate-change-caused hurricane, but who am I going to believe, some bought-and-paid-for dork on social media, or my lying eyes (and compound fracture)?
Adam Garcia, an HR strategist and founder of The Stock Dork, specializes in uncovering how factors like political leanings influence CEO hiring, shaping leadership alignment and business strategy.
Calling a beefy jock a “Biff,” an annoying dork a “Kyle,” a popular girl a “Heather,” or, in a more recent lexicon, a woman behaving badly a “Karen” is a universally understood code.
Dork Gently: NewportBarGuy: It doesn't do jack sh*t.
Dork Gently: Yes, Twitter made big trouble for itself by jumping for a dumb excuse to censor the NYPost stories when it didn't censor a ton of earlier stories.
He gets tossed into the ropes and tries to do that Spider-Man move where he gets stuck between them, but falls over like a dork.
In one of the greatest casting coups in history got Connery for their third Indiana Jones picture, and then went one step further by making him a bookish history dork.
ThieveryCorp: Dork Gently: Gleeman: foo monkey: Sic them on Antifa and we'll have two mythic organizations fighting each other.
ConFire Determines Cause Of Oct.27 Wildfires In Martinez, Lafayette&Dork.
I’ve tried asking, but it makes him incredibly uncomfortable to communicate what he wants in the moment (he’s a shy dork, and sexy-talk is not in his wheelhouse).
Rannells is also a delight as usual, hamming it up as a new New Yorker on a journey from big sweaty dork to big swinging dick, and Scheer, Sanz, and Lester lend a kooky –ishness to the proceedings.
She would threaten ne’er-do-well wine salespeople (I’m looking at you, Cork Dork!) that, if they didn’t live up to her exacting expectations, they would owe her a bottle of Salon — a Champagne that you might be lucky enough to find for $500 a bottle.
Steve was so Homer and excited about it that he kind of came off like a dork with his big guffaw… But then the game started and the best defensive lineman I saw was jadeveon Clowney.
The only librarian I knew was a dork idiot.
And that is not HER fault, dork-face!
Caught unawares, the whole thing is a comedy of error piled up upon error, starting with the initial launch warning, done by a low-level worker, and ricocheting to the governor's office, where the poor dork was searching for his sign-in and password.
Cause he’s kind, creative, funny, vibrantly curious about life, weird as fuck in all the best ways, a big dork, and he’s one of my best friends.
Dork Gently: AirForceVet: He was close to retirement so he didn't want to spoil it.
Common combinations with dork
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: