geek
noun
- expert or enthusiast obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit
verb
- to be over-excited
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɡiːk/
noun
Etymology: Probably related to keek. Compare German gucken (“look”), kieken (“look”) and the dialectal corruption of Dutch keek (“keek”) (from kijk (“look”)), kijken (“to look”). Australian use from Cornish dialect.
- A look.
“Have a geek at this.”
“Then he says let′s have a geek at some of the elephant pictures instead.”
verb
Etymology: Probably related to keek. Compare German gucken (“look”), kieken (“look”) and the dialectal corruption of Dutch keek (“keek”) (from kijk (“look”)), kijken (“to look”). Australian use from Cornish dialect.
- To look; to peep; to stare about intently.
“This gayte bucca-davy, all'ys geekin' round arter a gook.”
“I will geek, I will geek I tell ee; while I have the spirit of a man in me I'll geek.”