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Meanings of dweeb in English

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

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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
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
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 dweeb in English
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
6
Gone was the meek and polite dweeb from Monday night.
News.com.au
7
Plus, what kind of dweeb wants the Swedish Bikini Team for a screen saver?
Wired
8
If you're a cricket dweeb, you might as well not bother going to bed.
The South African
9
Is he a useless dweeb or a ruthless, power-hungry cad?
The Guardian
10
What kind of dweeb was he that he couldn't even kiss a girl goodbye?
Table for five
11
An impressive title for a murdering dweeb with stupid hair.
A knife edge
12
That guarantees he's a dweeb. But she followed him.
Sushi for one?
13
Instead, Waters comes across as an annoying dweeb, unlike Hitchcock and Rod Serling before him.
Reuters
14
The dweeb in the plaid hat cut in.
Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
15
The adults had their own sack race, and every kid watching turned into a dweeb, too.
The summer of riley
16
It takes a lot of skills to convincingly portray a skin job without looking like a dweeb.
Wired
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