pencil-necked

English

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Adjective

pencil-necked (comparative more pencil-necked, superlative most pencil-necked)

  1. Having a very thin neck.
  2. (idiomatic, US, derogatory) Insubstantial; weak.
    That pencil-necked geek isn't going to stop me.
    • 1997 July 7, Zina Moukheiber, “The geeks have inherited the earth”, in Forbes, →ISSN, page 348:
      Science fiction is more than inelegant prose for pencil-necked teenagers.
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