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Poindexter
//ˈpɔɪnˌdɛkstɚ// name, noun, slang
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname from Jersey Norman.
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
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
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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