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Definition of Dirking
1. dirk [v] - See also: dirk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirking
Literary usage of Dirking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John Bull in America, Or, The New Munchausen by James Kirke Paulding (1825)
"... self-sufficient, bundling, gouging, guessing, drinking, dirking, spitting,
chewing, pig stealing, impious genius of democracy, as the Quarterly says. ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"(NED) 1823 [I was] well pleased to turn my back on all the spitting, gouging,
dirking, duelling, swearing, and staring of Old Kentucky.—Id., p. 103. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1821)
"... jn dirking surveys of ancient enclosed lands, the act expressly excepts those
in the township of Waddingham. Whatever belonged to them, ..."
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