berk
⇨ berk; birk; burk; burke
noun a fool. Almost certainly a reduction of the rhyming slang
BERKSHIRE HUNT or
BERKELEY HUNT (a
CUNT) yet so widely used that the original sense has almost been lost; there is a suggestion that 'berk' may be a diminution of
BERKELEYS (the female breasts), thus
TIT (a fool)
UK, 1936