pencil-necked

Examples

• All

• I'm going to listen to some pencil-necked butthead tell me I don't know how to relate to you...

  Fiction book (1992)

• An inexperienced pencil-necked public defender shuffles papers. Jim

  Fiction book (1995)

• Ibrahim might be a little pencil-necked geek, but the dude had real balls, dicking with a bomb like this.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Apparently, simply reporting what hundreds of other people have discovered now makes me a pencil-necked geek in your book, because a politically based study which you consider to be "scientific" has been trashed by later research.

  Blog text (34)

• Fox News puts up a stooge like Colmes to provide a smarmy, pencil-necked, pin-headed stereotype as an amusing foil to whatever the conservatives have to say.

  Blog text (8)

• He always made fun of his pencil-necked classmates, teasing them for looking weak.

• The pencil-necked young man struggled to carry the heavy boxes at the moving company.

Synonyms

S

scrawny

vspencil-necked

• Informal

40 4.2

Very thin and weak in a way that looks unhealthy

implies thinness shows low physical strength rather than general illness

S

skinny as a rail

vspencil-necked

• Informal

1 7.0

Very thin person with little or no fat

focuses on a weak-looking neck and low strength rather than mere slimness

B

boney

vspencil-necked

• US

3.4

Thin so you can see or feel the bones

emphasizes a weak-looking neck and lack of strength rather than visible bones

Antonyms

A

athletic

267 2.8

Physically strong, fit, or good at sports

R

robust

112 3.9

Strong and able to work well in difficult conditions

How Thin

scrawny

• Informal

40 4.2

skinny

298 1.3

pencil-necked

• Offensive

1 9.7

thin

314 1.0

slender

57 1.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology