as in nerd
a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits
an inner-directed individual who could have cared less if others stuck the dreaded "weenie" label on him
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Recent Examples of weenie
July is for weenies; real heads know that August and especially September is when the heat gets here.
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Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 22 July 2025
Some also feature country sausage, diced weenies, and chicharrones stewed in luscious salsas.
—Edmund Tijerina, Bon Appétit, 27 Feb. 2025
How that might make some progressive weenies feel nervous?
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024
Prior to the men’s competition, Miki Sudo won the women’s title, scarfing down a record-setting 51 weenies in 10 minutes, besting her year-ago victory by 11-and-a-half weenies.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 4 July 2024
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His Peter is the guy in the corner, the one no one remembers was in the room, possibly a former nerd or the watchful child of a tough household.—
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Joyce nerds will recall Leopold Bloom’s visit to Sweny’s in the Lotos-Eaters episode quite early in Ulysses.—
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Crumb, at the time, would be dressed unremarkably casually, in banal pants and sweater, with thick glasses, looking more or less like a geek.—
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The pissed off punk rockers, the hopelessly antisocial geeks, and the kids doing drugs.—
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“Weenie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weenie. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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