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geekster en · NOUN · etymology 1

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Etymology

Etymology tree English geek Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā Old English -estre Middle English -estere English -ster English geekster From geek + -ster.

Meanings

  1. (informal) Someone who is extremely studious or has esoteric knowledge, especially in technological subjects.
    • It was bad enough having a boyfriend turn into a geekster right before her eyes. 1998, Laurie John, Francine Pascal, Sneaking in, page 45:
    • You are now doomed to be a joy ridden jungle junky groveling in the green underworld where all the passwords are taken by the dearly departed Not even a hackfest of geeksters can retrieve you here 2008, Drew Morse, The 2008 Rhysling Anthology, page 126:
    • I'm more of a math major who has learned to build databases than I am a true programmer, but I felt right at home in Bryce's geekster cube farm. 2008, Morgan Hunt, Blinded by the Light: A Tess Camillo Mystery, page 20:
    • If you need file and print sharing enabled on a home network, and any of the info above sounds over your head, get some geekster friend of yours to do it for you, or go to http://www.grc.com for some step-by-step instructions. 2000, Tom Bentley, Safe Computing, page 112:
  2. (informal) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
    • What is the world coming to when even an American geekster like Todd Solondz (Happiness) can outshock the children of De Sade and Baudelaire? 1999, New York - Volume 31, Issue 7; Volume 32, page 56:
    • This could've been a great party, but you don't know the meaning of the word, you skinny little geekster. 1992, Elizabeth D'Anard, Cinderella Summer, page 160:
    • Who would hire a creepy geekster like this to work with sick and dying kids? 2002, Rinker Buck, First Job: A Memoir Of Growing Up At Work, page 73:
    • It's death to look too eager, too needy, too smiley. I rediscovered that truth tonight when I asked two of the little geeksters to dance. They turned me down! 2009, Julie Oliver, I've Been 16 for 34 Years, page 74:
    • In a desperate plea to help agoraphobic desktop jockeys everywhere, Electronic Arts takes its popular sim to the place that no gaming geekster ever dared go: a date. 2001, Spin - Volume 17, Issues 7-12, page 172:

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geekster en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

Blend of geek + hipster.

Meanings

  1. (slang) Someone who intentionally looks geeky as a fashion statement.
    • Snaptee’s designers also tend to favor a 10’s post-irony hip-hop aesthetic, rather than Threadless’ hipster-gone-geekster – but we at Tech in Asia are far from couture snobs, even when it comes to T-shirts. 2014 September 3, Josh Horwitz, “Hong Kong’s Snaptee secures $750K to build a social network for T-shirt lovers”, in Tech in Asia:
    • A small toothed geekster wearing aviator glasses and a virtuosically painted plaid shirt, Greenwold lives in Albany, New York . 1999, Artforum International - Volume 37, page 93:
    • Correspondent Ryan Duffy — one of the show’s hipster-geekster reporters — spends most of his camera time remarking on the surreal nature of the trip, in perpetual disbelief that he is actually in North Korea. 2013 June 9, Hank Stuever, “‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’: Striking nerves by striking a chord”, in The Washington Post:
    • Your average teenager wants to fit in with the rest, to appear fashionable, at the cutting edge. Nobody wants to be un-chic, dorky, or nerdy (outside of geeksters who have their own un-chic look and wear it proudly). 2011, Tom Streissguth, Getting the Hang of Fashion and Dress Codes: A How-to Guide, page 82:

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