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geek

geek |gēk ɡik | ▶noun informal 1 an unfashionable or socially inept person. • [ usu. with modifier ] a knowledgeable and obsessive enthusiast: a computer geek. 2 a carnival performer who performs wild or disgusting acts. DERIVATIVES geek i ness noun, geek y adjective ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from the related English dialect geck ‘fool, ’ of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gek ‘mad, silly. ’ word trends: Is being a geek something to be proud of? A few decades ago, the answer would almost certainly have been no: the word was a cruel and critical label attached to clever, but socially awkward, people: Trekkies, computer geeks, and unpopular college students. Then in the 1990s, everything changed. The computer industry helped many geeks to achieve great success, and the wider perception of geeks began to shift. Being a geek was suddenly a positive thing, suggesting an admirable level of knowledge, expertise, and passion: geeks could do ‘cool stuff, ’ and they could fix your computer! It's now common for people to be self-proclaimed or self-confessed geeks, with geekiness no longer confined to the world of science and technology ( a music geek with an awesome vinyl collection | the kind of film that every true movie geek would give five stars ). Nerds have undergone a similar change of image but to a lesser extent, with some negative terms such as boring and pathetic still commonly attached to the word.

geek

geek 2 |giːk | ▶noun Austral. /NZ informal a look: there was a lot I wanted to have a geek at. ORIGIN early 20th cent.: from Scots and northern English dialect geck ‘toss the head scornfully ’.

geek

geek 1 |giːk | ▶noun informal an unfashionable or socially inept person. • [ usu. with modifier ] a knowledgeable and obsessive enthusiast: a computer geek. DERIVATIVES geekdom noun, geekiness noun, geeky adjective ( geekier, geekiest ) ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from the related English dialect word geck ‘fool ’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gek ‘mad, silly ’. word trends: Is being a geek something to be proud of? A few decades ago the answer would almost certainly have been no: the word was a cruel and critical label attached to clever, but socially awkward, people: train-spotters, computer geeks, and unpopular college students. Then in the 1990s everything changed. The computer industry helped many geeks to achieve great success, and the wider perception of geeks began to shift. Being a geek was suddenly a positive thing, suggesting an admirable level of knowledge, expertise, and passion: geeks could do ‘cool stuff ’. It's now common for people to be self-proclaimed or self-confessed geeks, with geekiness no longer confined to the world of science and technology ( a music geek with an awesome vinyl collection | the kind of film that every true movie geek would give five stars ). Nerds have undergone a similar change of image but to a lesser extent, with some negative terms such as boring and pathetic still commonly attached to the word.

geek

geek 2 |giːk | ▶noun Austral. /NZ informal a look: there was a lot I wanted to have a geek at. ORIGIN early 20th cent.: from Scots and northern English dialect geck ‘toss the head scornfully ’.

geek

geek /ɡiːk /名詞 C 1 ｟米俗 ｠ダサいやつ, 変人 ; マニア, おたく ; 〘コンピュ 〙パソコンおたく (computer geek ).2 ｟米俗 ｠(見世物の )奇怪な芸人 .