Poindexter
//ˈpɔɪnˌdɛkstɚ// name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A bookish or socially unskilled person. US, colloquial
"Brain: A quantum-interface bomb? Are you insane in the membrane? / Philip Fry: You got it, Poindexter!"
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Poindexter. alt-of
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname from Jersey Norman.
Example
More examples"Brain: A quantum-interface bomb? Are you insane in the membrane? / Philip Fry: You got it, Poindexter!"
Etymology
From Jersey Norman Poingdestre (literally “right fist”). The sense “bookish or socially unskilled person” is from the character of the same name in the cartoon Felix the Cat. Its first use appears c. 1981 in the publication University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Slang.
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