Geek vs Fanboy - What's the difference?
geek | fanboy |
(dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
(colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and usually asocial. Often used with an attributive noun.
(colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
(colloquial) The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream; the philosophy, events, and physical artifacts of geeks.
* 2007' '''Kelly Boler, ''inmag.com'':''' ''"Basically," says [Harry J.] Knowles [founder, 'Ain't It Cool News' website], "it's my job to stay on top of the latest and coolest in '''geek that's out there, specifically as it relates to the world of film."
(colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
(Australia, colloquial) A look.
* 2005 , , The Essential Bird ,
(label) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1988
, month = August
, title = Comics
, first = Bart
, last = Bull
, magazine =
, issn = 0886-3032
, volume = 4
, issue = 5
, page = 41
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=XAZuVTiu8yMC&pg=PA41&dq=fanboys
, passage = (It's in the nature of comic book fanboy' obsessiveness that all of these Eras and Ages and such have been religiously chronicled; it's equally in their nature that no two ' fanboys can ever agree about anything about any of these Ages and Eras; everything is up for debate, eternally and in microscopic detail.)
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1998
, month = September
, title = Exposure: Tales From the Dark Side
, first = Brian
, last = Doherty
, magazine =
, issn = 0886-3032
, volume = 14
, issue = 9
, page = 108
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=-5EbyHNqgkwC&pg=PA108&dq=fanboys
, passage = Six years and seven titles later, their company, Top Cow, is the third-biggest-grossing comic line, thanks mainly to a pair of blood-soaked, modern-day Gothics that have been a hit both with fanboys and a growing number of women.
}}
* {{quote-news
, date = 2008-12-10
, title = What's so great about Macs?
, first = Tim
, last = Barribeau
, newspaper = (The Sydney Morning Herald)
, issn = 0312-6315
, url = http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/whats-so-great-about-macs-20090615-cb42.html
, accessdate = 2012-10-20
, passage = Apple fanboys have always devoted equal parts of their mind to genuine reasons to praise their chosen corporation, and to blindly ignoring its faults.
}}
As nouns the difference between geek and fanboy
is that geek is a carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior while fanboy is a male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).As a verb geek
is to get high on cocaine.geek
English
(wikipedia geek)Etymology 1
From the British dialectal term .Noun
(en noun)- I once saw a geek bite the head off a live chicken.
- I was a complete computer geek in high school, but I get out a lot more now.
- Most famous actors are really theater geeks at heart.
- My laptop’s locked up again. I need a geek .
- Do you need a hardware geek''' or a software '''geek ?
- Why do you hang around with them? They’re just geeks .
Derived terms
* geek chic * geek code * geekdom * geekery * geekly * geek out * geekySee also
* dork * freak * guru * hacker * loser * nerdEtymology 2
Probably related to keek; compare (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)unnumbered page,
- Then he says let?s have a geek at some of the elephant pictures instead.
- Have a geek at this.