- 1很宅、有點古板不合群;現在也常指「很迷某種東西」。台灣口語「宅」比「極客」日常。
Geeky is the adjective from geek. The older, use is the one many dictionaries still put first: someone who is not popular, who wears clothes, who does not quite know how to be in a group, or who does things other people find strange. That use is still alive, and it can hurt if you aim it at a person’s looks or social life. Though actually the word has shifted. From the 1990s on, people started wearing it with a smile, especially about computers, games, comics, or a very specific hobby. “That’s a bit geeky” can now mean “deeply into the details, and that’s all right.” Younger speakers often hear the kind use first. The mean use and the fond use live side by side, so tone does a lot of work. It is informal either way. It is not simply “clever”: a geeky person may be clever, but the flavour is , or happily obsessive, not “good at school”.
組成geek + -y. The -y ending turns the noun into an adjective, as in messy or sunny.
同家族的字
- geekthe noun this adjective comes from
- geekinessthe noun for the quality
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
geekyadj/ˈɡiːki/
- 1
derogatoryResembling or characteristic of a geek.
- Buddy Holly is a slightly more contentious inclusion, even if he did live fast, die young and leave a geeky-looking corpse.
- In America, where classics like Monopoly dominate, Eurogames still have an avidly geeky following.
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