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This word was originally used to describe someone with a passion for science, but it has progressively come to mean someone with a passion for computers. A female geek is called a geekette.
Geek
Updated : Tuesday 2 February 2010
- The word geek is the subject of fierce controversy. For the purists, the geek is first and foremost a computer expert. To others, it’s a pejorative term not far removed from nerd or “web addict”, i.e. headed for the psychiatric unit. A bit like the “no life”, the teenager with the computer games addiction who’s doomed to massacre his parents and end up in rehab. At all events, one sees the term geek being used more and more in everyday language to mean someone who spends their time blogging, tweeting or on Facebook. Being a geek is actually quite cool, even though, for a while now, it’s been better to be called a nerd (nerds were invented in the 80s) than a geek (geeks go back to the 70s). Even the internet is a prey to fashion.
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