{"id":4363,"date":"2011-01-27T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:33:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:33:59","slug":"classic-slang-terms-for-nerds-and-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/classic-slang-terms-for-nerds-and-geeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Slang Terms for Nerds and Geeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/slang-nerd-terms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4364\" title=\"slang-nerd-terms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/slang-nerd-terms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/slang-nerd-terms.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/slang-nerd-terms-340x186.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Where the Words Geek and Nerd Came From\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/where-the-words-geek-and-nerd-came-from\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Where the Words Geek and Nerd Came From<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before \u201cgeek\u201d, \u201cnerd\u201d, \u201cdork\u201d, etc, the proper terms for these same ragamuffins were \u201cDewdroppers\u201d, \u201cWaldos\u201d, and \u201cSlackers\u201d.\u00a0 Other common old slang words that were somewhat similar in meaning: pantywaist, oil can, drip, stinkeroo, mullet, roach, schnookle, kook, dimp, dorf, squid, auger, square, Joe Zilch, and dudd.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Where the Words Geek and Nerd Came From Text Version Before \u201cgeek\u201d, \u201cnerd\u201d, \u201cdork\u201d, etc, the proper terms for these same ragamuffins were \u201cDewdroppers\u201d, \u201cWaldos\u201d, and \u201cSlackers\u201d.\u00a0 Other common old slang words that were somewhat similar in meaning: pantywaist, oil can, drip, stinkeroo, mullet, roach, schnookle, kook, dimp, dorf, squid, auger, square, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1196,1195,1197],"class_list":["post-4363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-geek","tag-etymology-nerd","tag-slang-terms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}