disapproval If you call someone a berk, you think they are stupid or irritating. a stupid person (Berkeley hunt, rhyming slang for cunt, originally the name of a fox-hunting association)
() The usage is dated to the 1930s. A shortened version of Berkeley Hunt, the hunt based at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire. In the Cockney rhyming slang, hunt is used as a rhyme for cunt giving the word berk its original slang meaning.