dweebとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /dwiːb/
• 韻: -iːb

名詞

dweeb (plural dweebs)

1. (US, dated, originally university slang, now general slang, derogatory) A boring, studious, or socially inept person. [from 1968]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dork

   • 1994, Dexter Holland, “Self Esteem”, in Smash, performed by The Offspring:

     I may be dumb, but I'm not a dweeb.

   • 1996, Richard Stannard, Matt Rowe, “If U Can't Dance”, in Spice, performed by Spice Girls:

     There never is a Keanu but a dweeb looking at me.

   • 2005 June 13, Edmund White, “My Women”, in The New Yorker‎:

     No way, man, the biggest dweeb of them all with . . . Marilyn!

使用する際の注意点

Although dweeb frequently involves some more sense of boring studiousness than dork, dweeb does not carry the connotations of actual intelligence or mastery of an (unimportant) subfield frequently intended by the similar nerd and geek. The term dweeb implies both social ineptitude via boring studiousness and unintelligent obsession without mastery of the subfield. Dweeb is not to be conflated with the term weeb (specific to anime).

同意語

• Nigel (Australia); see also Thesaurus:dork

派生語

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アナグラム

• bedew, bewed