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The word geek is a slang term, noting individuals as "a peculiar or otherwise odd person, especially one who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things including those of intellectuality, electronics, etc." Formerly, the term referred to a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken, bat, snake or bugs. The 1976 edition of the American Heritage Dictionary included only the definition regarding geek shows. This word comes from English dialect geek, geck: fool, freak; from Low German geck, from Middle Low German. The root geck still survives in Dutch gek: crazy, and in the Alsatian word Gickeleshut: geek's hat, used in carnivals. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. I've just been invited to a geek party and I have to have a name tag with my geek codename on it but I don't know what that is. Asked by C-Lay "L" - Sun May 13 19:04:45 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. lostman Answered by duster360 - Sun May 13 19:10:09 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Geek" From Wikiquote under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
