anorak

Definitions


[ˈanərak], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a waterproof jacket, typically with a hood, of a kind originally used in polar regions

- a studious or obsessive person with unfashionable and largely solitary interests
(e.g: with his thick specs, shabby shoes, and grey suit, he looks a bit of an anorak)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 19th century: via German from Greenlandic anoraq. The British informal sense dates from the 1980s and derives from the anoraks worn by trainspotters, regarded as typifying this kind of person




definition by Oxford Dictionaries