Word: Anorak
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1920s: from Greenlandic anoraq. The British English informal sense dates from the 1980s and derives from the anoraks worn by trainspotters, regarded as typifying this kind of person
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈanərak
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a waterproof jacket, typically with a hood, of a kind originally used in polar regions.
Short Definition:waterproof jacket of kind originally used in polar regions
Definition:
a studious or obsessive person with unfashionable and largely solitary interests
Short Definition:studious or obsessive person with unfashionable and largely solitary interests
Examples:- with his thick specs, shabby shoes, and grey suit, he looks a bit of an anorak
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