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"ref": "1962, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad, page 167",
"text": "I entitled the piece \"Dorky\", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.",
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"ref": "1967, Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson",
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"ref": "1962, Jerome Weidman, The Sound of Bow Bells, page 362",
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"ref": "1986, Stephen King, It",
"text": "\"You’re dead, Trashmouth,\" Vince “Boogers” Taliendo told him, pulling his jock up over a dork roughly the size and shape of an anemic peanut.",
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"ref": "2005, Mike Judge, Reading Sucks: The Collected Works of Beavis and Butthead",
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