Sentence The word "berk" is considered to be a slightly rude slang term in British English and it is not considered appropriate for formal writing.
It means a foolish or stupid person. Example: "I can't believe Dave made such a stupid mistake - what a berk!".
"Anyone who genuinely believes the Series 5 storyline (1924) involving the animal was a reaction to recent world news is a complete berk".
5. Sleeping It Off Man Just as every Spanish beach has a berk who fell asleep four hours ago and now has second-degree burns, every festival has a regally refreshed reveller who peaked early and decided to have a lie down – usually found topless alongside a campsite thoroughfare.
That said, for those unaccustomed to the world of fine dining, staff will hopefully endeavour to make you not feel like a total berk.
For the rest of us, it is entirely possible to observe that Lord Carey, for instance, is a pillock, wazzock and berk of the first order without showing the faintest signs of wanting to smash his windows or shepherd his children into a gas chamber.
"It's worth remembering that Diana had to have an epidural after 15 hours," wittered one berk pundit who feathers his nest with this sort of creepy royal vaginal minutia.
Like, in fact, hungover guests waking up after a dinner party where some berk brought out after-dinner absinthe, another berk brought up politics, and it all went very awry.
His heir, Alp-Arslan, was succeeded by Malik-Shah in 1072, and the latter's death in 1092 led to succession disputes out of which Berk-Yaruq emerged triumphant to reign until 1105.
Having allied himself first with the Seljuq ruler Berk-yaruq, then from about 1101 with Berk-yaruq's brother Muḥammad, the Mazyadid ruler Ṣadaqah I (reigned 1086 1108) gradually assumed control of most of Iraq, seizing Hīt, Wāsiṭ, Basra, and Takrīt.
by Berk Ozler 3. Studies of individual countries a. Kenya (Give Directly's programme): "Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers - Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya".
And it could even be the starting-point for a new way of doing astronomy.Daniel Vanden Berk, an astronomer involved in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (the project whose telescope made the observation), described the flash at a conference held this month in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Based on its brightness and colour, Dr Vanden Berk argued that the flash was similar to those that have been seen following gamma-ray bursts.
