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Dweeb

//dwiːb// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A boring, studious, or socially inept person. US, dated, derogatory, general, slang

    "I may be dumb, but I'm not a dweeb."

  2. 2
    an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious wordnet

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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