Sentence examples for geek words from inspiring English sources

The word "paraphyletic" is, once again, a combination of two Geek words, para (near) and phyle (tribe), so the implication is that the whole tribe is not present (Fig. 13).

But now "nerd," and its close cousin "geek," are words that lots of people are happy to identify with, humble-bragging about their obsessive expertise.

In this regard, as in his reluctance to be cast as a geek ("The word I like to use is 'cocktailian,' " he said), Mr. Kinsey is something of an anomaly in geek circles.

As a rough translation for "geek," the word entered popular use by the end of the 1950s.

STEVEN LANDAU, a partner at a factory design firm in Burlington, Mass., was already an efficiency geek before the words "passive house" entered his vernacular.

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.

Be prepared to hear the words geek and nerd used to describe you in a non complimentary way.

Like many potentially derogatory words, "geek" is a term that non-technical staff should avoid using though technical staff members often use it with each other.

I don't believe the word "geek" had entered the lexicon then, but the sense of the word surely had: kids gifted in science and math inhabited a rarefied universe, where everything intellectual was easy and everything social was hard.

"I was that kid who was a real word geek".

Word geek roughs up math geek: that's this review so far, approaching overkill.