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Word: dweebs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wayne Campbell, star of Wayne's World, is a mush-minded dweeb whose success prefigures the collapse of civilization . . . Not! (There, we've done our mandatory aping of Wayneglish, that newly epidemic subspecies of English that certifies Wayne as this month's pop-cultural phenom.) Actually, he is a fairly learned dude; his I.Q. could match those of Bill and Ted and still have points % left over for Homer Simpson. Wayne's vocabulary is abundant with synonyms for the verb vomit: hurl, spew, honk. With his Chinese girlfriend he can chat in Cantonese. And only Wayne noticed that two actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Party On, Wayne -- From TV to Movies | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...folks at Pensinsula rail against the "Dominion of the politically correct." Well what about the socially correct and its estranged cousin, the socially incorrect (see dweeb, nerd, Quadling, etc.)? At least political thought is based on some semblance of reason. Who came up with the ever-powerful list of social...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: A Song of Selsun Blues | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

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