In mijn Webster's New World College Dictionary (Third Edition, June 1995) staat het wel:
Geek (gek) n
< dial. geck, fool < Du gek, madman, fool
< MLowG geck, orig. echoic of unintelligible cries
1. a performer of grotesque or depraved acts in carnival, etc., such as biting off the head of a live chicken.
2. [Slang] any person considered to be different from others in a negative or bizarre way, as a teenager seen as being awkward, tall and gangling, stupid or antisocial
-geeky, giek'-er, geek'i-iest, adj
Het woord komt dus volgens Webster uit het Nederlands, afgeleid van 'gek'.
Louis Groenendal,
Eindhoven
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