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   An·o·rak

   /ˈanəˌrak/

   

   noun

   • 1. a waterproof jacket, typically with a hood, of a kind originally used in polar regions.
   • 2. a studious or obsessive person with unfashionable and largely solitary interests: informal, derogatory British "with his thick specs, shabby shoes, and grey suit, he looks a bit of an anorak"

   Word Origin 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.

   Derivatives

   • 1. anoraked adjective

   Scrabble Points: 10

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