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Jerk and drip are long gone; nerd and dork are passé.
At limebarb, Ms. Staples's company and North America's largest independent manufacturer of costumes for cosplay — derived from "costume" and "play"— the words "geek," "nerd" and "dork" are not terms of derision.
Jerk, in the sense of "boob," has been ubiquitous since 1935, and dork (from dirk, "dagger," with its penile connotation similar to schmuck) has been with us at least four decades, but they remain slang.
Collins English Dictionary says adorkable is slang for "socially inept or unfashionable in a charming or endearing way" and is a blend of adorable and dork.
This enrages both Debbie and Dork Vader, who hate honesty.
Lisa is a pop culture enthusiast, movie nerd and dork.
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He's a rapper and singer, a pedlar of both braggadoccio and melancholy, boy next door and baller, lover and womaniser, dork and hunk, Jewish and black.
"I think a lot of people perceive that the Intel students are supersmart and dorks," she admitted.
Dorking West has regular services to and from London,but its user statistics suggest that nearly everyone prefers to travel from the Surrey town's two other stations, Dorking and Dorking Deepdene.
Under the plan, South West Trains as far as Weybridge and Dorking would come under TfL control, as would Southern as far as Epsom and Croydon.
Self-consciously literate as it might sound, Paper Towns blossoms into an engaging, freshly acted ensemble piece – a rare US teen movie that isn't about caricatured nerds and dorks, and doesn't treat its audience as dorks either.
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