dweeb

noun
/dwiːb/

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

  1. derived from dweeb
  2. derived from feebinflu

Definitions

  1. 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!

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA