geek – English noun declension

English noun forms of geek

Noun: geek
Singulargeek
Pluralgeeks

Sample Sentences

  • I once saw a geek bite the head off a live chicken.
  • You hand in your ticket / And you go watch the geek / Who immediately walks up to you / When he hears you speak / And says, “How does it feel to / be such a freak?” [1965, Bob Dylan, “Ballad of a Thin Man”, in Highway 61 Revisited:]
  • I was a complete computer geek in high school, but I get out a lot more now.
  • Most famous actors are really theater geeks at heart.
  • My laptop’s locked up again. I need a geek.
  • I challenge these geeks to show a little spirit and produce an 81 tier bonfire by Friday night. It would also be nice to see a few kegs and some spirit around their awaited creation each night. Until then I rest my case. [1978 November 14, Jeff Boylan, “Excerpts”, in Bob Wasserman, editor, The Tech, volume 98, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2014, page 1:]
  • i eschew the use of "foo" "bar" and other dill-beak geek dull unimaginative temporary filenames! i find it much better to use names like: ingracl-bbp.goo or dog or ignatz [1983 February 16, dd, “Re: Temporary file names”, in net.misc (Usenet), retrieved 21 Sep 2016, message-ID :]
  • The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later. [2012, Fiorenza Belussi, Udo Hermann Staber, Managing Networks of Creativity, page 92:]
  • It is totally counter-intuitive. How do these ubernerds get the cute girls? Is it the ultimate triumph of the Bill Gates era, in which geek is the new cool? [2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 265:]
  • "Basically," says [Harry J.] Knowles [founder, 'Ain't It Cool News' website], "it's my job to stay on top of the latest and coolest in geek that's out there, specifically as it relates to the world of film." [2007, Kelly Boler, inmag.com:]
  • Why do you hang around with them? They’re just geeks.
  • But you can't be any geek off the street, gotta be handy with the steel, if you know what I mean, earn your keep. [1988, Young Guns (film)]
  • Yeah, well, listen. You ought to ditch the two geeks you're in the car with now and get in with us. But that's all right, we'll worry about that later. [1993, Richard Linklater, Dazed and Confused (motion picture), spoken by Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey):]

Etymology

Started as carnival slang, likely from the British dialectal term geck (“a fool, dupe, simpleton”) (1510s), apparently from Dutch gek or Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian meaning "to croak, cackle," and also "to mock, cheat" (Dutch gekken, German gecken, Danish gække, Norwegian gakke, Swedish gäcka). The root still survives in the Dutch adjective noun gek (“crazy" or "crazy person”). Compare gink and also Old Norse gikkr (“a pert, rude person; jester; fool”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'gikkr'.

Verbs referencing "geek"

Danish Nouns geek, French Nouns geek, Dutch Nouns gek, German Nouns Geek, Swedish Nouns gäck.