单词 | anorakish |
释义 | anorakishadj. British slang (depreciative). Overly studious, unfashionable, or socially inept; spec. displaying obsessive or fastidious concern with the details of a hobby or interest. Cf. anorak n. 2b and anoraky adj. ΚΠ 1992 Times 7 Nov. 19/4 Computer ownership is not, of itself, necessarily anorakish, but I don't really need a computer as big or as powerful as the computer I have. 2001 G. Lachman Turn off your Mind iii. 75 College readers of Tolkien's work had a tenacity and anorakish single-mindedness matched only by the Trekkies who would soon follow. 2007 B. J. C. Purves Stop Motion xiii. 258 Nerdy, anorakish Brian is more interested in adding a rare form of carborundum to his ever-expanding gravel collection. Derivatives ˈanorakishly adv. with obsessive attention to the details of a hobby or interest. ΚΠ 2000 rec.arts.sf.fandom 15 Sept. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 29 Jan. 2019) Anorakishly, I watched the first half hour of the recent David Duchovny film..thinking ‘Where did he get a bib front shirt today?’ and then ‘Why is he wearing it with a tux?’ 2003 Independent 28 Feb. (Review section) 7/8 Just one of a few dozen students..who loved to hang out among the dangling axes [i.e. guitars], anorakishly discussing the ‘action’ of the fretboard neck with anybody who'd listen. 2011 @marcusleroux 27 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Oct. 2018) Email from contact and anorakishly avid newspaper reader: ‘reading The Times again every day on my new iPad. Paper newspapers are finished’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < adj.1992 |
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