Definitions
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- noun A person with a very thin neck.
- noun US, pejorative An insubstantial person; a
weakling .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I believe the lovely, endearing term is "pencilneck" that she does tell me, because I do have a tendency to overdo it in that regard.
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Implausible or not, the 2A types appear poised to take down this pencilneck.
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I've got to get me one of those headset thingies, with a camera, so you people can see a black man speak - without a teleprompter - who isn't a pencilneck geek and doesn't sound like Mos Def.
Mickey Kaus asks "Does she know the guy?" Ann Althouse 2009
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Implausible or not, the 2A types appear poised to take down this pencilneck
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Does this mean that I am secretly some conformist pencilneck?
Walking Person & Upraised Hand, Part One : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2007
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Every pencilneck with a keyboard declaring, Oh you think you're so kewl?
Self-Indulgent 2005
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The issue here isn't whether you dropped in, pencilneck; it's whether you dropped in in disguise.
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It's still there until some pencilneck who reads this alerts them to it.
COMIXTALK 2009
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It's still there until some pencilneck who reads this alerts them to it.
COMIXTALK 2009
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It's kind of a wonderful thing, the imagination -- the author photo outs Westlake as a pencilneck who probably never even shoplifted, Cooke is a Canadian, where there's absolutely no history of crime fiction much less mobsterism, and the non-Italian "syndicate/outfit/organization" is pure fantasy, and yet this reads as an authentic thriller, albeit one with more of a superhero bent.
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