/ giːk; NAmE / noun
( informal ) a person who is boring, wears clothes that are not fashionable, does not know how to behave in social situations, etc.
SYN nerd :
a computer geek
► geeky adjective
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WORD ORIGIN
late 19th cent.: from the related English dialect word geck fool, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gek mad, silly.