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Geeks & Geezers
Explores the dynamic process that forges new leaders, explaining how key turning points and challenges force individuals to decide who they are and what their ...
geezer
n. Slang
An old person, especially an eccentric old man.
An old person, especially an eccentric old man.
[Probably alteration of dialectal guiser, masquerader, from Middle English gysar, from gysen, to dress, from gyse, guise, fashion. See guise.]
WORD HISTORY A relationship with a word we know well is disguised in the word geezer. A clue to this relationship is found in British dialect. The English Dialect Dictionary defines geezer as "a queer character, a strangely-acting person," and refers the reader to guiser, "a mummer, masquerader." The citations for guiser refer to practices such as the following: "People, usually children ... go about on Christmas Eve, singing, wearing masks, or otherwise disguised," the last word of this passage being the one to which geezer is related.
geek
Slang.
n.
n.
- A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
- A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
- A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
To excite emotionally: I'm geeked about that new video game.
[Perhaps alteration of dialectal geck, fool, from Low German gek, from Middle Low German.]
geeky geek'y adj.
Our Living Language Our word geek is now chiefly associated with contemporary student and computer slang, as in computer geek. In fact, geek is first attested in 1876 with the meaning "fool," and it later also came to mean "a performer engaging in bizarre acts like biting the head off a live chicken." Perhaps the use of geek to describe a circus sideshow has contributed to its current popularity. The circus was a much more significant source of entertainment in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries than it is now, and large numbers of traveling circuses left a cultural legacy in various unexpected ways. Superman and other comic book superheroes owe much of their look to circus acrobats, who were similarly costumed in capes and tights. We also owe the word ballyhoo to the circus; its ultimate origin is unknown, but in the late 1800s it referred to a flamboyant free musical performance conducted outside a circus with the goal of luring customers to buy tickets to the shows inside. Other words and expressions with circus origins include bandwagon (coined by P.T. Barnum in 1855) and Siamese twin.
奇葩與怪傑(DH0119)──時代、價值觀和關鍵時刻如何塑造領袖wrinkle(rĭng'kəl) n.
- A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.
- A line or crease in the skin, as from age.
- A clever trick, method, or device, especially one that is new and different.
- A problem or imperfection; a fault: The report had to be revised because of a few wrinkles.
v., -kled, -kling, -kles. v.tr.
- To make wrinkles or a wrinkle in.
- To draw up into wrinkles; pucker: wrinkled her nose in disdain.
To form wrinkles.
[Middle English, back-formation from wrinkled, wrinkled, probably from Old English gewrinclod, past participle of gewrinclian, to wind, crease.]
wrinkly wrin'kly adj.masquerade[mas・quer・ade]
- 発音記号[mæ`skəréid]
- masquerade
n.- A costume party at which masks are worn; a masked ball. Also called masque.
- A costume for such a party or ball.
- A disguise or false outward show; a pretense: a masquerade of humility.
- An involved scheme; a charade.
- To wear a mask or disguise, as at a masquerade: She masqueraded as a shepherd.
- To go about as if in disguise; have or put on a deceptive appearance: The stowaway masqueraded as a crew member.
[French mascarade, from Italian mascarata, variant of mascherata, from Old Italian maschera, mask. See mask.]masquerader mas'quer·ad'er n.
[名]
1 仮装舞踏会；仮装.
2 [U][C]見せかけ；虚構.
━━[動](自)
1 （…と）自己を偽る((as ...)).
màs・quer・ád・er
[名]仮装舞踏会参加者.
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