dweeb
Americannoun
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dweebs
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Origin of dweeb
First recorded in 1980–85
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“He looked like a dweeb, for lack of a better word,” said Tony Annese, his first college head coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
A dweeb, but not exactly a dope, Tyrannis is something of a visionary, looking forward from a savage past to a world run by “diplomats, negotiators, deal makers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
“Hollywood refuses to write even one story about an actual company startup where the CEO isn’t a dweeb and/or evil,” Musk tweeted last year.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
This is one of the reasons Devi pictures Des as a dweeb before they meet in person.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2022
The young Cicero was a shrimp and dweeb, confessing that he wrote poetry in the hours his contemporaries dedicated to “parties and gambling and ball games. ”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
To the dominant culture, they were dweebs, then Satanists, then back to dweebs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
But since it’s 2020, what it means is just a bunch of dweebs talking into the computer.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2020
This time around, our hosts were two lovable dweebs with great pipes, Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles, opening the show on head-to-head grand pianos.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2018
Today, movies about vaguely heroic computer dweebs get nominated for Golden Globes.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2010
We started waving and hollering like a couple of dweebs.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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