See geek on Wiktionary
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The root still survives in the Dutch adjective noun gek (“crazy\" or \"crazy person”). Compare gink and also Old Norse gikkr (“a pert, rude person; jester; fool”).", "forms": [ { "form": "geeks", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "geek (plural geeks)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "19 18 23 16 0 4 8 11 0", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "People", "orig": "en:People", "parents": [ "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "I once saw a geek bite the head off a live chicken.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1965, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Ballad of a Thin Man”, in Highway 61 Revisited:", "text": "You hand in your ticket / And you go watch the geek / Who immediately walks up to you / When he hears you speak / And says, “How does it feel to / be such a freak?”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior." ], "id": 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heart.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun." ], "id": "en-geek-en-noun-tDJTjoj9", "links": [ [ "person", "person" ], [ "field", "field" ], [ "hobby", "hobby" ], [ "attributive noun", "attributive noun" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun." ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "otaku" } ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "geek" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "nørd" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "freak" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "et", "lang": "Estonian", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "friik" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "friikki" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "-hullu" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "geek" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Spezialist" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Freak" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "maniódis", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "μανιώδης" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "kocka" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "stréber" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "maniaco" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "mania", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "マニア" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "otaku", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "オタク" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "mania", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "마니아" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "otaku", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "오타쿠" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "nv", "lang": "Navajo", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "ntsékeesii" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "xore", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "word": "خوره" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "čudák", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "чуда́к" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "oderžímyj", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "одержи́мый" }, { "_dis1": "3 64 10 5 18", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "čóknutyj", "sense": "person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "чо́кнутый" }, { 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laptop’s locked up again. I need a geek.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1978 November 14, Jeff Boylan, “Excerpts”, in Bob Wasserman, editor, The Tech, volume 98, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, archived from the original on 2014-08-10, page 1:", "text": "I challenge these geeks to show a little spirit and produce an 81 tier bonfire by Friday night. It would also be nice to see a few kegs and some spirit around their awaited creation each night. Until then I rest my case.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1983 February 16, dd, “Re: Temporary file names”, in net.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-21, message-ID <bnews.yale-com.883>:", "text": "i eschew the use of \"foo\" \"bar\" and other dill-beak geek dull unimaginative temporary filenames! i find it much better to use names like: ingracl-bbp.goo or dog or ignatz", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, Fiorenza Belussi, Udo Hermann Staber, Managing Networks of Creativity, page 92:", "text": "The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers." ], "id": "en-geek-en-noun-422cQl80", "links": [ [ "expert", "expert" ], [ "computer", "computer" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one 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Until then I rest my case.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1983 February 16, dd, “Re: Temporary file names”, in net.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-21, message-ID <bnews.yale-com.883>:", "text": "i eschew the use of \"foo\" \"bar\" and other dill-beak geek dull unimaginative temporary filenames! i find it much better to use names like: ingracl-bbp.goo or dog or ignatz", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, Fiorenza Belussi, Udo Hermann Staber, Managing Networks of Creativity, page 92:", "text": "The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers." ], "links": [ [ "expert", "expert" ], [ "computer", "computer" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers." ], "tags": [ "broadly", "colloquial" ] }, { "categories": [ "English colloquialisms", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 265:", "text": "It is totally counter-intuitive. 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"roman": "jíkè", "sense": "expert in a technical field, particularly to do with computers", "word": "極客 /极客" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "zháinán", "sense": "expert in a technical field, particularly to do with computers", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "宅男" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "zháinǚ", "sense": "expert in a technical field, particularly to do with computers", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "宅女" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "expert in a technical field, particularly to do with computers", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "geek" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "expert in a technical field, particularly to do with computers", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "nørd" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "expert in a technical field, particularly to do with computers", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "computerfreak" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "expert in a 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Australian use from Cornish dialect.", "forms": [ { "form": "geeks", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "geeking", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "geeked", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "geeked", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "geek (third-person singular simple present geeks, present participle geeking, simple past and past participle geeked)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "related": [ { "word": "geek someone's head up" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Cornish English", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1891, Joseph Henry Pearce, Esther Pentreath:", "text": "This gayte bucca-davy, all'ys geekin' round arter a gook.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1895, Joseph Thomas, Randigal Rhymes:", "text": "I will geek, I will geek I tell ee; while I have the spirit of a man in me I'll geek.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": 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