dweeb
/dwiːb
/noun North American informal
A boring, studious, or socially inept person.People who work in the Internet industry on the other hand are viewed as nerds, geeks, dweebs and propeller heads....
- And he's got the geek thing going on without being a total dweeb.
- My dad had a Kingston Trio record, and even at the tender age of 7, I could tell this stuff was for dweebs.
Derivatives
dweebish
- If these dweebish types actually like what they are doing, there must be a link between this and liking things which other people find boring.
- The 6820 is designed to encourage text entry but without the dweebish stigma of a posh smartphone.
dweeby
- If you are a student enrolled in English or Art department classes, you've probably had some attractive, if somewhat dweeby, student come into your class and accost you for submissions.
- It's chock-full of tidbits from the sublime (how to create the best pitch presentation) to the ridiculous (how to make cool, rather than dweeby, T-shirts to advertise your brand).
- It was about a dweeby kid who wanted to be a pirate.
Origin
1980s: perhaps a blend of dwarf and early 20th-century feeb 'a feeble-minded person' (from feeble).