geek
noun /ɡiːk/
/ɡiːk/
(informal)- a person who is boring, wears clothes that are not fashionable, does not know how to behave in social situations, etc.
synonym nerd (1)闷蛋;土包子 - a person who is very interested in and who knows a lot about a particular subject
synonym nerd (2)极客(对某领域极感兴趣且知之甚多的人) - a computer geek
电脑迷
Collocations DictionaryGeek is used after these nouns:- computer
- gadget
- a computer geek
词源late 19th cent.: from the related English dialect word geck ‘fool’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gek ‘mad, silly’.