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anoraked en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English anorak Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English anoraked From anorak + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Wearing an anorak.
    • Whenever things were getting on top of me over the year to come - the birds not showing, the distances too vast, the weather and the fatigue too overwhelming - I would think back to that anoraked figure quivering with derision and use the image of his smirking mug to keep going, determined that one day I would bump into him and quietly say, `I did it.' 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 131: