pencil-neck
nounEtymology From pencil + neck, popularized by wrestler Freddie Blassie.
1
Informal A person with a very thin neck.
2
US, Derogatory, Idiomatic An insubstantial person; a weakling.
- That pencil-neck from systems isn't going to tell me what I can't do.
- Mom said, “Sell it to the circus, what the heck.” / Dad said, “Nope, this one's a pencil neck / And if there's one thing lower than a side show freak / It's a grit eatin', scum suckin', pencil neck geek.”1977, Pete Cicero, Martin Margulies, “Pencil Neck Geek”, performed by Freddie Blassie & The Geekettes:
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- On Thursday, March 28, Trump took the stage in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a campaign rally, where he unleashed a new schoolyard nickname: “little pencil-neck Adam Schiff.”2020, Kevin Sullivan, Mary Jordan, quoting Donald Trump, Trump on Trial, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 217:
- Derived terms
- pencil-necked