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I look like a complete dork in these clothes.
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Car dorks of the sort that populate the C/D offices will be quick to point out that the Roxor resembles the megarare Alfa Romeo 1900M Matta 4×4; those with truly arcane tastes will name-check the Crosley Farm-O-Road.
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These dorks from Delco keep calling in saying Jorts are cool, stop taking their calls @Ike58Reese @JonMarksMedia @94WIP 6.
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Turning down the popular guy for the dork that liked you before your makeover.
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Who was going to say publicly that staying on would violate official Department of Justice regulations, other than the usual Democratic goo-goos in the House and Senate and the self-righteous dorks in the fake news media?
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The new currency — and, indeed, that day’s top offering — was a video of Thompson dancing like a dork in a Chinese nightclub.
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At a moment when we are stuck with a president who is solely a creature of celebrity culture, maybe a White House press corps made of anonymous dorks and dusty worker bees could be a breath of fresh air.
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Movies often depicts computer engineers as anti-social dorks.
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And, one of Jack just kind of being a dork and wanting to show Lorde the funniest video ever.
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Of nerds, geeks, and dorks
Dork, when used to refer to a socially awkward or inept person, is a relatively recent word: our records indicate that it first appeared in writing in the 1960s. Two of its synonyms in this sense are likewise of fairly recent vintage. Nerd (typically used of a studious species of dork) dates from the 1950s; it was coined by Dr. Seuss in his 1950 book If I Ran the Zoo, although not in the sense that we use today. Geek became synonymous with nerd in the 1950s. Prior to this, the word referred to, among other things, a carnival performer who would bite the head off a live chicken, or other small animal, as part of an act.
Origin and Etymology of dork
dork Synonyms
Synonyms
airhead, blockhead, chucklehead, dimwit, dodo, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, goof, goon, half-wit, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, know-nothing, knucklehead, lamebrain, loon, lunkhead, moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull (or numbskull), oaf, pinhead, saphead, simpleton, stock, turkey, yahoo, yo-yo;
Related Words
booby, buffoon, fool, goose, loony, lunatic, madman, nut, zany;
gawk;
beast, boor, cad, clown, creep, heel, jerk, skunk, snake, stinker, villain;
DORK Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of dork for English Language Learners
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: a person who behaves awkwardly around other people and usually has unstylish clothes, hair, etc.
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