| Social misfit |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Aug 2025 |
| Some clod or knucklehead |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Jul 2025 |
| Socially awkward sort |
New York Times |
15 Jul 2025 |
| Nerd |
USA Today Quick |
12 Jul 2025 |
| Lovable goof |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Jun 2025 |
| Idiot |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
26 May 2025 |
| Socially inept person |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
25 May 2025 |
| Awkward individual (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Idiot |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Dweeby type |
USA Today |
12 Mar 2025 |
| An idiot from Hereford or Kent (4) |
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| Somehow brokered beer out of nerd |
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| Diary writer in a Rachel Renée Russell series |
LA Times Daily |
23 Nov 2024 |
| Goober |
New York Times |
16 Nov 2024 |
| Certain high-school archetype |
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| Nerdy type (rhymes with "pork") |
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| Contemptible, socially inept person (4) |
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| Uncool person |
New York Times |
13 May 2024 |
| Social misfit (sl) (4) |
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| Rachel Renee Russell's "___ Diaries" |
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| Dweeb |
New York Times |
09 Jan 2024 |
| Awkward sort |
Universal |
30 Jul 2023 |
| Square |
New York Times |
18 Jun 2023 |
| Cool kid's antithesis |
Wall Street Journal |
23 May 2023 |
| Dweeb |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jan 2023 |
| Big ol' nerd |
Universal |
05 Aug 2022 |
| Dweeb |
Universal |
23 Jan 2022 |
| Lovable goofball, say |
New York Times |
22 Dec 2021 |
| Geeky sort, slangily |
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| Nerdy type |
LA Times Daily |
13 Sep 2021 |
| Nerdy type |
The Washington Post |
13 Sep 2021 |
| Socially awkward person |
Universal |
17 Jul 2021 |
| Silly person |
USA Today |
30 Jun 2021 |
| Dweeb |
New York Times |
27 Dec 2020 |
| "___ Diaries" (series about a 14-year-old) |
Universal |
24 May 2020 |
| Square figure? |
New York Times |
17 Mar 2020 |
| Nerdy sort |
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| Nerdy sort |
The Washington Post |
09 Jul 2019 |
| Nerdy sort |
LA Times Daily |
09 Jul 2019 |
| Socially awkward type |
Universal |
08 Jul 2019 |
| Dweeb |
Eugene Sheffer |
19 Jun 2019 |
| "___ Diaries" (middle-school series) |
Universal |
14 Jan 2019 |
| "___ Diaries" (middle-school series) |
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| Nerdy sort |
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| Socially awkward type |
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| Uncool fellow |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Oct 2018 |
| Shy nerdy one |
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| Socially awkward type |
LA Times Daily |
22 Aug 2018 |
| Socially awkward type |
The Washington Post |
22 Aug 2018 |
| Uncool type |
USA Today |
07 May 2018 |
| Socially awkward sort |
LA Times Daily |
01 May 2018 |
| Socially awkward sort |
The Washington Post |
01 May 2018 |
| Uncool fellow |
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| Socially awkward sort |
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| Socially awkward type |
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| Uncool type |
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| Choice of extremes for drunk idiot |
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| Square one |
New York Times |
10 Aug 2017 |
| Uncool sort |
USA Today |
16 Jan 2017 |
| Uncool sort |
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| Square one |
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| Nerd |
New York Times |
26 Sep 2016 |
| Unlikely member of the in crowd |
Wall Street Journal |
05 May 2016 |
| Nerd |
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| Social misfit in nerd or kook |
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| Nerdy type |
Universal |
20 Oct 2015 |
| Dweeby type |
Eugene Sheffer |
16 Mar 2015 |
| Nerdy type |
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| Social misfit |
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| Nerd |
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| Goofball |
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| Jerk |
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| Dweeb |
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| Almost any character on "The Big Bang Theory" |
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| Idiot |
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| Nerdy sort |
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| Geeky sort |
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| Geeky sort |
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| Nerd |
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| Schmo |
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| Nerdy sort |
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| Social misfit |
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| Doofus |
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| Doofus |
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| Unhip sort |
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| Social misfit |
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| Uncool sort |
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| Extremely uncool person |
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| Mr. Uncool |
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| Oaf |
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| Hardly Mr. Cool |
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| Social misfit, to some |
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| Loser |
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| Nerd |
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| Social misfit |
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| Jerk |
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| Nerd |
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| Dweeb |
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| Dweeb |
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| Nerdy type |
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| Nincompoop |
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| Blockhead |
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| Mr. Uncool |
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| Nerd |
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| Hardly Mr. Cool |
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| Nerd or schmo |
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