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Meanings of wonk in anglès

An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious.

Sinònims
Examples for "grind"
Examples for "grind"
1
They grind their points; they stir poison; they swarm in the streets.
Vergilius: A Tale of the Coming of Christ
2
The 'two days before payday' grind would be easier, if not gone.
Radio NZ
3
The walnut-crusher shifts gear into a final grind-into-mush setting: Capital Laundry Services?
Equoid
4
Gottta love a man who knows the value of a good grind.
Love, life and linguine
5
The mills of the gods in the Interior Department grind very slowly.
The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief
1
Years earlier, he had become a self-proclaimed coffee nerd almost by accident.
The Irish Times
2
What's the point being a nerd if you cannot learn such things?
Wired
3
One player is eliminated each week in a test of nerd-related skill.
Wired
4
Mitch from Real Genius: Perhaps the truest warts-and-all depiction of a nerd.
Wired
5
Reuters: Do you think that being a math nerd is an advantage?
Reuters
1
What's the best way to protect my laptop without looking like a dweeb?
NY Magazine
2
Today I look back on pre-lockdown Romesh as some sort of caffeine-fearing dweeb.
The Guardian
3
Allow me to become a keyboard-thumping dweeb for a few minutes.
The Irish Times
4
So I can be a dweeb loser on a different coast?
Brain jack
5
Not on a first date, and certainly not with a dweeb like Kevin Traherne.
White fire
1
He is, in other words, that person mocked by Johnson: a swot.
The Guardian
2
He was the clear winner, beating loyal swot Hermione Granger into second place.
The Guardian
3
You fellows swot, and I sit in the orchestra chairs.
The Young Seigneur / Or, Nation-Making
4
Even though he was a bit of a swot and not much good at games.
Eyeless in Gaza
5
Second and most importantly, I'm going to swot up on all the world history I can.
The Irish Times
Usage of wonk in anglès
1
I'm not a policy wonk, I don't know how to fix it.
The new yorker
2
You don't have to be a game show wonk to follow it.
Reuters
3
One Mercedes wonk recently put driver input at 20 per cent.
The Irish Times
4
A smiling Bush connected more easily than serious super-wonk Al Gore.
The Guardian
5
Translated from the wonk, that means no more intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Wired
6
Bergmann, a Gestapo wonk, gives murderous orders from behind his desk and maps.
The Irish Times
7
When it came to privatization, wonk seemed to be working out better than swashbuckler.
Confessions of a wall street analyst: a true story of inside inf...
8
Hillary Clinton is a hugely knowledgeable policy wonk but is not a natural performer.
Radio NZ
9
Until now she's been a policy wonk, consultant and strategist.
The Guardian
10
George turned to Mark Bowman, one of his policy wonk sidekicks at the Treasury.
The Guardian
11
But almost immediately, he starts to wonk out with Ray Hayes, the lab's white-bearded manager.
Wired
12
There are other aspects of the white paper that command the attention of a surveillance wonk.
The Guardian
13
He's never been an engineer, a designer, a supply channel manager, or even a telecommunications wonk.
Wired
14
I'm having dinner with a government statistics wonk on Wednesday, and will be sure to ask him.
Reuters
15
Photo: AFP One was a policy wonk, a deep thinker and with some strong conservative social views.
Radio NZ
16
We posted an article on hydrogen fuels by energy policy wonk Robert Zubrin a little while ago.
Wired
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