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Dweeb vs Coward - What's the difference?

dweeb | coward |

As a noun dweeb

is (us|slang|pejorative) a boring, studious, or socially inept person.

As a proper noun coward is

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dweeb

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, slang, pejorative) A boring, studious, or socially inept person.

    • Synonyms

    * See also * Sometimes used alongside nerd and geek, however dweeb does not carry the same connotations of intelligence.

    Quotations

    * No way, man, the biggest dweeb of them all with . . . Marilyn! – , "My Women" [https://archive.is/20121204150452/www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050613fa_fact] * There never is a Keanu but a dweeb looking at me – "If You Can't Dance", by the * I may be dumb, but I'm not a dweeb . – "Self-Esteem", by .

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    coward

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who lacks courage.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward , he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.

    Synonyms

    * chicken * See also

    Derived terms

    * cowardly * cowardice

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Cowardly.
  • *, II.17:
  • *:It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
  • * Prior
    • Invading fears repel my coward joy.
  • (heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
    • English words suffixed with -ard