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dweeb

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Scrabble points
11
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12
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/dwiːb/

Definition of dweeb

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US, dated, derogatory, general, slang)A boring, studious, or socially inept person.
    “I may be dumb, but I'm not a dweeb.”
    “There never is a Keanu but a dweeb looking at me.”
    “No way, man, the biggest dweeb of them all with . . . Marilyn!”

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Etymology

From 1968 US college slang, probably related to feeb. The 1980s backronym Dim-Witted Eastern-Educated Boor derives from apparent social and attitudinal differences between West Coast and East Coast US, and describes a stereotypical Ivy League graduate from Harvard, Yale, etc. Etymology tree ▲ English feebinflu. English dweeb

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