Definitions
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- noun A person with a very thin neck.
- noun idiomatic, US, pejorative An insubstantial person; a
weakling .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Horton, age 52, may seem alien among this sedentary crew, but his roots are pure pencil-neck.
The Fight Against Government Flab Is Personal for These Politicians Elizabeth Williamson 2011
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That was a lippy pencil-neck from Indian and Northern Affairs, squaring off in a meeting with a delegation from Attawapiskat, a remote northern Ontario reserve where living conditions have been going downhill for years.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The Running Dogs took 10th place, besting more than half of our pencil-neck print colleagues.
A D.C. Race Where the Results Don't Matter Elizabeth Williamson 2011
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Weeks went by, and after repeated phone calls a pencil-neck DNR inspector showed up and roamed around the property with a clipboard.
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I think Gingrich railing contemptuously against 'elites' bears an eerie resemblance to the infamous ring legend Freddie Blassie, who never missed a chance to lambaste his enemies as nothing but a bunch of "pencil-neck geeks."
Jeffrey Shaffer: Newt Looks Back In Anger -- At What? Jeffrey Shaffer 2012
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What it contained was a link to a blog post currently running over at Newsbusters -- the right-wing media watchdog site created by professional uptight pencil-neck Brent Bozell -- which claimed that a Huffington Post contributor had inadvertently pulled back the curtain on MSNBC's prime time operation and admitted the ugly truth about it.
Chez Pazienza: A Fox on Both Your Houses? Chez Pazienza 2010
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What it contained was a link to a blog post currently running over at Newsbusters -- the right-wing media watchdog site created by professional uptight pencil-neck Brent Bozell -- which claimed that a Huffington Post contributor had inadvertently pulled back the curtain on MSNBC's prime time operation and admitted the ugly truth about it.
Chez Pazienza: A Fox on Both Your Houses? Chez Pazienza 2010
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What it contained was a link to a blog post currently running over at Newsbusters -- the right-wing media watchdog site created by professional uptight pencil-neck Brent Bozell -- which claimed that a Huffington Post contributor had inadvertently pulled back the curtain on MSNBC's prime time operation and admitted the ugly truth about it.
Chez Pazienza: A Fox on Both Your Houses? Chez Pazienza 2010
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For the most part, they fit the description of "the pencil-neck geek" from high school.
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Do you need help with that albatross around your pencil-neck, or with finding your feet and tying your shoes?
Culling the Culture: Great Balls of Lips BikeSnobNYC 2009
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